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Old 08-01-19, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by noglider
I haven't done much on my bikes in the last week or so. I volunteer at the bike coop on Monday evenings. This week, I was showing someone how to true wheels, and others came up and asked to learn also. We have three truing stands in a row on a table, so three people ended up doing their wheels at a time. A fourth came later on. They all succeeded in truing their wheels without making them worse, so I seem to be good at teaching it. It's very rewarding to me, perhaps even more than fixing bikes.
Cool. I have dogeared the pages on wheel truing in my Zinn and the Art of Road bike maintenance manual, having a truing stand definitely helps
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