Wheel truing and stickers
04-17-22, 01:25 PM
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Wheel truing and stickers
When truing brake rims with stickers I get quite annoyed by the added height of the stickers.
I try to maintain the true over the sticker and after jumping off the end of the sticker aim for the same dial reading prior to the sticker.
Now I know a bunch of you can't be assed with dials, however, some of us do, and I like it.
It appeals to my desire for perfection.
Each wheel I look at I am aiming for absolute zero variation because however unlikely its a challenge and it is fun.
Stickers are a pain in my ass.
However, you can't just peel them off, some of them look good and the wheel often belongs to someone else...
How do you guys pragmatically/systematically approach this issue?
I try to maintain the true over the sticker and after jumping off the end of the sticker aim for the same dial reading prior to the sticker.
Now I know a bunch of you can't be assed with dials, however, some of us do, and I like it.
It appeals to my desire for perfection.
Each wheel I look at I am aiming for absolute zero variation because however unlikely its a challenge and it is fun.
Stickers are a pain in my ass.
However, you can't just peel them off, some of them look good and the wheel often belongs to someone else...
How do you guys pragmatically/systematically approach this issue?
04-17-22, 03:09 PM
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I use the ignore list.
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04-17-22, 03:47 PM
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When truing brake rims with stickers I get quite annoyed by the added height of the stickers.
I try to maintain the true over the sticker and after jumping off the end of the sticker aim for the same dial reading prior to the sticker.
Now I know a bunch of you can't be assed with dials, however, some of us do, and I like it.
It appeals to my desire for perfection.
Each wheel I look at I am aiming for absolute zero variation because however unlikely its a challenge and it is fun.
Stickers are a pain in my ass.
However, you can't just peel them off, some of them look good and the wheel often belongs to someone else...
How do you guys pragmatically/systematically approach this issue?
I try to maintain the true over the sticker and after jumping off the end of the sticker aim for the same dial reading prior to the sticker.
Now I know a bunch of you can't be assed with dials, however, some of us do, and I like it.
It appeals to my desire for perfection.
Each wheel I look at I am aiming for absolute zero variation because however unlikely its a challenge and it is fun.
Stickers are a pain in my ass.
However, you can't just peel them off, some of them look good and the wheel often belongs to someone else...
How do you guys pragmatically/systematically approach this issue?
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All of my bikes use rim brakes. 
My VAR truing stand is quite sensitive so I could imagine added bumps being annoying.
I wonder if you could run your gauges on the inside of the rim. There still may be a seam, but that would only be a single bump.
The rollers on the VAR stand are pretty big, and I like narrow rims, so it might be a struggle to get it all in there.
My VAR truing stand is quite sensitive so I could imagine added bumps being annoying.
I wonder if you could run your gauges on the inside of the rim. There still may be a seam, but that would only be a single bump.
The rollers on the VAR stand are pretty big, and I like narrow rims, so it might be a struggle to get it all in there.
04-17-22, 04:51 PM
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There shouldn’t be any stickers on the brake surface. If you are using dial indicators around the labels of the rim, you are using your dial indicators wrong. Further, a wheel doesn’t need to be so true that the thickness of a vinyl sticker (which shouldn’t be on the brake surface) knocks the true off. Stickers are 0.1mm thick. Wheels only need a run out of 1 to 2mm to be considered “true”
Disc brake rims! Not rims with brake tracks!
04-18-22, 12:07 AM
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Cover the whole rim with stickers. When you're done obsessing truing the wheel, take them off.
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