from the ‘cycle ops’ dept:
Ah, Spring. How sweet it is. Today (after a long ambulance shift during which I was dying to be one two wheels of some sort) I kidnapped the TriX and the Langster (um … they’re bicycles) to the backyard and did some long awaited post-winter-sitting-blues maintenance. A little lube, a light cleaning, plenty of pumped air and a once over … and what’s this? The rear wheel on the cyclocross is out of true? Oh noes! What shall I do?!?!
Well, apparently I (what’s the past tense of “shall”?) do’d wrong, because I tried truing it the way Jeff showed me, and I dang near warped the thing into Borg space. Apparently I remembered wrong. Anyway, I took a break for some food and TV and a quick ride on the NYC special (Langster), and Blake and Paul remembered me how to do it.
When I got home, it took a wee bit of patience (wee changes, nae big!) and in about 15 minutes the rim was straight and true. Dang! This is pretty easy. Soon I’ll have to take the wheel off the bike and try the nifty anodized truing stand to get it perfect. I’d say it’s good enough to ride tomorrow though.
