Originally Posted by
utoner34
I meant if you are on tour and you need to change broken spoke or similar.
Why is everybody mentioning to use brakes for truing. Its not like everybody uses rim brakes these days.
Two reasons:
1. They are still quite common.
2. If you don’t have rim brakes, your required level of true (axial runout) is much less.
If you’re not running rim brakes then anything that doesn’t run the fork or frame will probably get you home. I’ll bet you could use a finger tip as a truing gage at that point. If you happen to ride a bike that uses tubes you could always wrap one around the fork or stay and rotate it until the valve stem is in about the right place. Plenty of other field rigging options, just mostly unnecessary.