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Old 09-18-19, 12:39 AM
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jideta
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Originally Posted by 79pmooney
If I were building that wheel, I'd back off the tight DS spoke tension to much closer to the rest and just live with the bump. A tight spoke is an issue that will almost certainly cause problems later. The bump? Only matters if you can feel it while riding and then, only if it matters to you. I've tuned out far worse wheels and gotten many good miles out of them. (In the old days of plugged tubular rims, that bump was the norm. So was the discontinuity of the casing and stitching of just about every tubular made at the valve.)

Ben

Thanks, I'll back off the spoke and just let the bump be.
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