Originally Posted by
TiHabanero
Your experience brings up a practice that I train into every person we hire as a mechanic. When inserting a wheel into place, the bike comes out of the stand and is set upon the floor for alignment before tightening a thru axle or a QR. The bike then goes back into the stand for final brake adjustment be it a disc brake or caliper brake.
I have been doing that very same thing since the early 1970's. It only takes a few seconds and gives you repeatable wheel placement every time