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Old 02-14-18, 12:50 PM
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Thanks for the followup. You may hear pinging in the wheel when you ride it, a manifestation of the tendency of tight
spokes to twist when the nipple is turned so the nipple just winds up the spoke instead of screwing down the spoke
thread. I used to take the wheel off the stand and put it on the floor vertically and bounce my weight on the rim
with my hands as the rim was rotated around a hemi-circumference. This results in a lot of pinging and then you
re-true and repeat til the rim is true and all pings are gone. Flat spokes can be gripped with a smooth jawed pliers
to minimize spoke windup. Bouncing on a wheel with tire on it doesn't work so well, need to have tire off.

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