Bike maitenance workshop: wheel truing

Leaders
Josh Bradshaw
Type
Other
Trip date
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
Difficulty rating
Chill

What

Learn how to true bicycle wheels on a truing stand. An arcane and tricky art.

Note that this workshop is smaller than our previous workshops because truing wheels is tricky and we only have one truing stand.

When + where

MIT Open Space, Oct 11 6-8pm

Look for the bikes

Bring - bicycle

Optional - Tire levers - Spoke wrenches - Hex wrenches - Whatever tools you need to remove the wheels from your bike


Signup

Algorithm
first-come, first-serve
Maximum participants
4
Signups opened at
Oct. 5, 2023, 3:57 p.m.
Signups closed at
Oct. 11, 2023, 9 a.m.
Notes
  1. Why do you want to learn to true wheels?
  2. Can you accept the (minor) risk of messing up your wheel's tension or breaking a spoke?
Signups for this trip are closed.