i dont think people know but this is an emergency hack when you are on the road or mountain and dont have a wheel balancer on you. this is the best option until you get to a bike store. obviously truing a wheel is complexed and precise, but eyeing a rough balance to get you down the mountain, this is exactly what you do.
You don't need a zip tie for an on-road fix. Just your thumb or even just eyeballing it will tell you where the problem is. Also, this is a rim-brake wheel, so you can use the brake pads.
@Aimless_Driverim brake doesn't have to be straight, though if you're maintaining a bike well, they should be, but if partially applied they will still be steady relative to the wheel and will indicate by rubbing where the problem is. Fair comment about the zip ties being carried anyway. Why does my country of residence matter?
@Aimless_DriveIt's not "my method". I'm just saying that in an emergency, there are a few ways of doing it. And seriously, adjusting one spoke is not going to work properly. I wondered if you were from the USA. Calling "my" method wrong is just arrogant of you I'm afraid.
@Aimless_DriveEthnocentric much. Americans definitely spend more money and have taken the simple bicycle and turned it into an overpriced machine full of built-in obsolescence. To assert that Americans are somehow superior and are the only people to do things properly is laughable. Claiming that "brakes move around" is ridiculous. Show me a video of a set of brake callipers moving around while a wheel spins! I can't believe you brought culture into it instead of sticking to the mechanics of the problem. You can't stick to the subject, so I'm disengaging from this "discussion".
No not really..what makes it more complicated? This is more of a roadside or emergency repair and adjustment. He's not doing bicycle surgery. Don't try to make this out to more than it is.
Loosening one spoke that much is absolutely nuts. You would have to micro torque every other spoke just to make sure that one doesn't come more loose and flop around in the future
All the spokes are inter connected in the wheel. If you tighten one without loosening the opposites if all spokes are tightened hard, you inherently cause imbalances/tension. At the right moment, the weakest link has to give, it may be the spokes, or even the rim. The nut on the spoke may tear through the rim. It could work if you check the tension before tightening it by using your fingers to pull on the spokes to see if it/they are loosen where your sticky tape marking or opposite. Truing is to make the wheel as round as possible. One would measure by observing the deviation of the radius length when the wheel rotate. This hack tries to reduce the deviation of one side of the wheel. I am not sure that would achieve truing the wheel.
Thank you for thoroughly explaining this should be the top comment I don't understand why it's not because I'm a tire technician and even I didn't know what was going on here although I do with cars and trucks and semis not really with motorcycles and bikes so thank you for the information I do appreciate it and I will apply this knowledge the next time a biker comes into my job complaining about an unbalanced feeling in their wheel I now can fix it they're building a stronger customer basis thank you also shop for tires get your tires fixed and lower upper suspension based service go to Big O we will fix you right up
I always look for comments like this. I see the video, know I need an explanation, and find wonderful knowledgeable people like you. Thank you for adding to my plethora of useless knowledge (that I cherish) that I keep inside my head
my dude i deal with spokes and rims for a living , if you need to loosen the opposite spokes the deformation of the rim is severe (and you have to think if the effort is worth the saving ) or you shouldnt have touched the wheel to beginn with. since you work your way like litteraly all the radius around all spokes end up thight enough to cut a cucumber. you only need to loosen the spokes to level the rim if it happen to bounce a bit up and down at the marker. the funny thing is you have to make sure the BB´s of the hub are thighten as well and the axle set straight in the frame. many try this stunt on virtualy loose hub bearings with a wiggle of about 1-1,5 mm without the spokes flex and they wonder why the rim keep on scretching on the brakepads
He didn't fix shit. He simply addressed how to go about a whole myriad of things that are involved in the spokes on a wheel. Truing is an art, that few are truly familiar with. I'm reality u need a truing stand and patience. Lots of patience. If u really wanna know how this goes, go to a bike shop and watch an old guy true a set of wheels. That'll set u in the right direction. Hope this helps
@Captain-Cardboardthere ain't no helping your lot. But I'm sure you're doing the best u can, to do something or another. Even if you're unsure what that is...
El video esta bien pero se necesita mucha experiencia para centrar una rueda correctamente, siempre son varios los rayos que deben ser ajustados o aflojados segun corresponda...
Especially since for most people on their daily ride, rubbing on the brake blocks is the only reason they might need to adjust their spokes in the first place
En français, cela s'appelle "rayonner". Normalement, ce sont les magasins de vente-réparation de cycles qui font cela. Le morceau de collier comme repère de la planéïté de la roue est une bonne idée ! Il faut procéder progressivement, reláchant un rayon et tendant le rayon opposé. Une opération délicate qui demande du savoir-faire.
No this is not the way you check the air pressure because the spokes might be bent and it will take more turns on the ones that are not to make them the same length to balance out the pressure in the as it rotates. This is a trick kids use to do to their bikes to make them sound like a helicopter when it comes into contact with the spokes' you need to move it where it will come in contact with the spokes.
This would be the exact same thing as someone taking a tire off a car, where they show them loosening the lug nuts and then check mark it's all fixed, there's a hell of a lot more to it than simply tightening one spoke. Actually it's imperative to even the tension on the spokes around the smoke that you're trying to tighten. Like for example you've got a left spoke and a right spoke, and you need to tighten the left spoke to pull the rim over that way, well what you want to do is loosen the right spoke one turn and then tighten the left spoke one turn that way you get equal pressure between both the left and the right side of the rim. Maybe simply just tighten all the spokes on one side, or over tighten them for that matter, then you get uneven pressure and you get a weak wheel, and you're actually more liable to break spokes over time or immediately in some cases as soon as the wheel is weighted down. I know this because I was a professional bicycle mechanic in a bike shop for a decade, simply tightening the spoke to pull the rim over to one side is not what you do, I mean it does work, but again it's the wrong way to do it.
This guys videos remind me of those stupid videos of people using like the wrong screw for the job and then using like a cutter wheel and a welding torch to permanently do a terrible job that passes for the moment and is gonna piss off someone who has to deal with it like a real professional later on , Look, it’s okay , we don’t all have intelligence that can produce original content ideas , sometimes you just have to accept that and humbly stop posting really bad “fix it tips” that no one is going to benefit from . Maybe learn a proper skill set and post videos about that instead , you could study all the right ways to fix these kinds of issues and make much better, longer and more useful content, but it’ll take time and patience , and less dumb cartoon boink noises.
It's called "Trueing" or balancing the rim, you know how the rims get wobbly when you spin them sometimes? This is the way to redial them. Can take time depending on how bad the rim is. Hope this helps.
@Ron-c6i That isn't good lol. But if it works it works! (That's how they balance Vehicle rims) Prob easier than sitting down for an hour trying to tighten the spokes perfectly anyways Haha! I'm with it!
doing one spoke is not going to fix it, a dry erase marker held down on the frame while you spin the tire will mark it with light then strong then light stroke so you know how many spokes you need to adjust and how many turns for each one. A curve in a tire is going to encompass multiple spokes.
Thanks for elaborating. Completely agree with this process. Called several bike shops in Charlotte NC to be told you couldn’t straighten a warped rim with the spokes and they would need replacing.
I actually did this 5 years back when i was putting new spokes on my dirt jumper and i later on when to a bike shop to get a new chain and even they where impresses when i said that i laced with wheels myself
I did not understand what was meant by the video I didn't understand, what does the video mean? I did not understand, what is the purpose of the video? .I didn't understand what the video was about. 😴
Primeramente si vas a girar la cabecilla de un radio, asegúrate de sostener el radio con alicate para que no gire junto con la cabecilla, de lo contrario no apretará ni aflojará...el vídeo solo sirve para mostrar el método de la brida para detectar roce
I have just learned that I know nothing about the essentials of bicycle maintenance.
Yup, I know less now than I did before.
My rim is all fucked up but i just dont bother fixing it lol
Oi, um aro bem torto consegue arrumar assim apertando os raios?
I got my bike from a bike shop here in Arizona. I get free tune-ups every year, so I just let them worry about it.
@teklegion❤
Tom finally losing his sh!t over Jerry 🤣
I hear a unhappy cat in the distance 😂
Если бы не ты, то я бы не заметил!
Tasty 😋😋
Yeah
certified asian👏👏
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i dont think people know but this is an emergency hack when you are on the road or mountain and dont have a wheel balancer on you. this is the best option until you get to a bike store. obviously truing a wheel is complexed and precise, but eyeing a rough balance to get you down the mountain, this is exactly what you do.
You don't need a zip tie for an on-road fix. Just your thumb or even just eyeballing it will tell you where the problem is. Also, this is a rim-brake wheel, so you can use the brake pads.
I was wondering why I'd ever need do that... Now I know I won't. Thanks for the clarification. 😂
@Aimless_Driverim brake doesn't have to be straight, though if you're maintaining a bike well, they should be, but if partially applied they will still be steady relative to the wheel and will indicate by rubbing where the problem is. Fair comment about the zip ties being carried anyway. Why does my country of residence matter?
@Aimless_DriveIt's not "my method". I'm just saying that in an emergency, there are a few ways of doing it. And seriously, adjusting one spoke is not going to work properly. I wondered if you were from the USA. Calling "my" method wrong is just arrogant of you I'm afraid.
@Aimless_DriveEthnocentric much. Americans definitely spend more money and have taken the simple bicycle and turned it into an overpriced machine full of built-in obsolescence. To assert that Americans are somehow superior and are the only people to do things properly is laughable. Claiming that "brakes move around" is ridiculous. Show me a video of a set of brake callipers moving around while a wheel spins! I can't believe you brought culture into it instead of sticking to the mechanics of the problem. You can't stick to the subject, so I'm disengaging from this "discussion".
It’s a bit more complicated than this!
Works rim brake pads
No not really..what makes it more complicated? This is more of a roadside or emergency repair and adjustment. He's not doing bicycle surgery. Don't try to make this out to more than it is.
No it's not. This is exactly what a truing stand does
Nur wenn man nichts drauf hat, ist es schwer. Dann ist sogar Nudelwaser warm machen eine Herausforderung.
@enBensemer 😂😂😂😂cooked him
Loosening one spoke that much is absolutely nuts. You would have to micro torque every other spoke just to make sure that one doesn't come more loose and flop around in the future
Well considering he’s tightening it. What are you talking about ?
@DavidEmmons-rv9ez he's shown loosening the spoke which would actually make his problem worse
So, some of you people think that the spokes are reverse threaded..interesting.
@DavidEmmons-rv9ez This man speaks the truth
I thought he was about to put it on where the zip tie would hit his spokes like we did with baseball cards as kids.😂
Same 😂
We did it with a empty bottle and just destroyed the tyres. Ahhh good old times
We did this with cans 😂
Me too! 🤣
Now I’m just confused. I don’t know what the heck he’s doing here.
I have used soda cans, bottles, cards, even silicone plates😂😂
This is epic. My first job was as a bicycle mechanic and I hated truing rims.
He just loosened a spoke and fixed it for the video, it's not likely that just one spoke would cause the issue.
Absolutely.
Thumb him down.
It's the same as a stand.. yes you might have to do a few different ones on each side, but it works I've done it many times..
Are you making a mistake. Did he loosen ?
He's truing the wheel dummy, a lot of times it is only one or two spokes that need adjustment
What is the issue ?
Aww. I thought you were going to put it at the spokes to make a clackety sound.
All the spokes are inter connected in the wheel. If you tighten one without loosening the opposites if all spokes are tightened hard, you inherently cause imbalances/tension. At the right moment, the weakest link has to give, it may be the spokes, or even the rim. The nut on the spoke may tear through the rim.
It could work if you check the tension before tightening it by using your fingers to pull on the spokes to see if it/they are loosen where your sticky tape marking or opposite.
Truing is to make the wheel as round as possible. One would measure by observing the deviation of the radius length when the wheel rotate. This hack tries to reduce the deviation of one side of the wheel. I am not sure that would achieve truing the wheel.
Thank you for thoroughly explaining this should be the top comment I don't understand why it's not because I'm a tire technician and even I didn't know what was going on here although I do with cars and trucks and semis not really with motorcycles and bikes so thank you for the information I do appreciate it and I will apply this knowledge the next time a biker comes into my job complaining about an unbalanced feeling in their wheel I now can fix it they're building a stronger customer basis thank you also shop for tires get your tires fixed and lower upper suspension based service go to Big O we will fix you right up
I dont really know what any of that meant but you sound like you know what youre talking about so I gave you a like
I always look for comments like this. I see the video, know I need an explanation, and find wonderful knowledgeable people like you. Thank you for adding to my plethora of useless knowledge (that I cherish) that I keep inside my head
@taydynstensgard8107- Not having a go... just an fyi: ... It's Tyre as in wheel.... not Tire as in sleepy (tired)
my dude i deal with spokes and rims for a living , if you need to loosen the opposite spokes the deformation of the rim is severe (and you have to think if the effort is worth the saving ) or you shouldnt have touched the wheel to beginn with.
since you work your way like litteraly all the radius around all spokes end up thight enough to cut a cucumber.
you only need to loosen the spokes to level the rim if it happen to bounce a bit up and down at the marker.
the funny thing is you have to make sure the BB´s of the hub are thighten as well and the axle set straight in the frame.
many try this stunt on virtualy loose hub bearings with a wiggle of about 1-1,5 mm without the spokes flex and they wonder why the rim keep on scretching on the brakepads
I have no clue wtf is going on here, what did you fix exactly?
He didn't fix shit. He simply addressed how to go about a whole myriad of things that are involved in the spokes on a wheel. Truing is an art, that few are truly familiar with. I'm reality u need a truing stand and patience. Lots of patience. If u really wanna know how this goes, go to a bike shop and watch an old guy true a set of wheels. That'll set u in the right direction. Hope this helps
@oliverklozhoff Nope, still lost.
@oliverklozhoff It didn't help.
He had an extra zip tie that he needed to get rid of somehow
@Captain-Cardboardthere ain't no helping your lot. But I'm sure you're doing the best u can, to do something or another. Even if you're unsure what that is...
Those are adjustable? What did it do?
Нельзя сразу так сильно ослаблять или затягивать спицы, надо делать равномерно по 1/2 или 1/4 поворотов, иначе еще хуже только станет
Спасибо Вам за ваш полезный совет
I like the simplicity of the video but if only it were that easy...
I’m watching this knowing full well I have no idea what he’s doing
El video esta bien pero se necesita mucha experiencia para centrar una rueda correctamente, siempre son varios los rayos que deben ser ajustados o aflojados segun corresponda...
Am I the only one you’ve used on how he got the perfect cut on the first try🙏😭😭
Or you can look at the brake blocks.
Especially since for most people on their daily ride, rubbing on the brake blocks is the only reason they might need to adjust their spokes in the first place
I struggled with wheel wobble but this tip will end the struggle.
Quarter of a turn of the spoke wrench is that is usually needed not a full turn
Less if speed or distance or railing.
Oh, and I thought my tire was broken by the bicycle stand
Никогда так просто не получается
ای دمت گرم
@iraneman166809-06-2025. Buena noche. Lunes œthrejnnI. STP, CTP 🕥💤🌃
получается, пипец как просто... я этих колёс пересобрал - море!
@serjones-j5gхарош!
I somehow never thought the wheels could be unalligned
En français, cela s'appelle "rayonner". Normalement, ce sont les magasins de vente-réparation de cycles qui font cela. Le morceau de collier comme repère de la planéïté de la roue est une bonne idée ! Il faut procéder progressivement, reláchant un rayon et tendant le rayon opposé. Une opération délicate qui demande du savoir-faire.
Instead of closing it, he opened it.
Very good!👍
И че он сделал? Почему этикетка именно в этом месте а не на лбу?
Who here is old enough where we would put a playing card agaist the spokes for the the 'clicky' noise?
We used to put Pau-Pau or Frutsis (kids juice bottles) in Mexico to make it sound like a motorcycle
My Mickey Mantle rookie cards made the best sounds ... Homer J Simpson
I just put any plastic bottles haha
We would put a flattened can in between the forks hitting the tire to make a motorcycle noise
I would be surprised if kids don’t still do this
I have no idea what this does
i rode so many bikes as a kid, never adjusted a spoke once.
Same here..I was looking like.. what the he'll is he doing😂
I remember one time my friend took it all apart and we couldn’t put it back together 😂
Most people dont need to do this unless you ride very heavy and need to ensure the wheel is balanced to prevent failure
Is RUclips sponsored by zip ties?
Anyone that has ever tried to true a wheel knows how ridiculous this is
No this is not the way you check the air pressure because the spokes might be bent and it will take more turns on the ones that are not to make them the same length to balance out the pressure in the as it rotates.
This is a trick kids use to do to their bikes to make them sound like a helicopter when it comes into contact with the spokes' you need to move it where it will come in contact with the spokes.
What in the fresh hell are you talking about
Sounds like a cat going ballistic 😂😂
No intenten eso. Puede salir muy mal. A menos que estén dispuestos a ponchar su llanta.
Porque, para que se hace eso?
This would be the exact same thing as someone taking a tire off a car, where they show them loosening the lug nuts and then check mark it's all fixed, there's a hell of a lot more to it than simply tightening one spoke.
Actually it's imperative to even the tension on the spokes around the smoke that you're trying to tighten. Like for example you've got a left spoke and a right spoke, and you need to tighten the left spoke to pull the rim over that way, well what you want to do is loosen the right spoke one turn and then tighten the left spoke one turn that way you get equal pressure between both the left and the right side of the rim.
Maybe simply just tighten all the spokes on one side, or over tighten them for that matter, then you get uneven pressure and you get a weak wheel, and you're actually more liable to break spokes over time or immediately in some cases as soon as the wheel is weighted down.
I know this because I was a professional bicycle mechanic in a bike shop for a decade, simply tightening the spoke to pull the rim over to one side is not what you do, I mean it does work, but again it's the wrong way to do it.
mil gracias ❤
It would be helpful if you actually explained what the hack actually was.
Simple et efficace bravo .👏👍
What was wrong with it in the first place?
I never knew those things on the spoke had a purpose lol
Without a disgruntled cat in the background, I can't do anything.
If you put one on the frame, you get +23fps
Обычно все намного сложнее, ибо неровность длится не одну спицу а множество, и с разной степенью отклонения😅
И еще автор крутил спицу против часовой стрелки, то есть откручивал и тем самым ослабил натяжение спицы.
Благодаря этим мамкиным лайфхакерам мой зять решил подтянуть спицы и своими руками сделал восьмерку на колесе...
Why waste time putting a zip tie on, when you can just use the brake pads themselves 😂
А что мелок приставить нельзя, чтобы отметил.
تو مملکت اینا گچ نیست.
como la vieja escuela jajaja
Ever heard of a card?
cats fighting for its life in the background
This guys videos remind me of those stupid videos of people using like the wrong screw for the job and then using like a cutter wheel and a welding torch to permanently do a terrible job that passes for the moment and is gonna piss off someone who has to deal with it like a real professional later on ,
Look, it’s okay , we don’t all have intelligence that can produce original content ideas , sometimes you just have to accept that and humbly stop posting really bad “fix it tips” that no one is going to benefit from . Maybe learn a proper skill set and post videos about that instead ,
you could study all the right ways to fix these kinds of issues and make much better, longer and more useful content, but it’ll take time and patience , and less dumb cartoon boink noises.
Forgive my ignorance... what is it for?
It's called "Trueing" or balancing the rim, you know how the rims get wobbly when you spin them sometimes? This is the way to redial them. Can take time depending on how bad the rim is. Hope this helps.
@Thats.Schmidty Thank you so much!!
I'll like it now, I thought it was a joke before
I didn't know either. Thanks for asking and thanks for replying!
@Thats.Schmidty I use weights on the rim to balance my tires.
@Ron-c6i That isn't good lol. But if it works it works! (That's how they balance Vehicle rims) Prob easier than sitting down for an hour trying to tighten the spokes perfectly anyways Haha! I'm with it!
doing one spoke is not going to fix it, a dry erase marker held down on the frame while you spin the tire will mark it with light then strong then light stroke so you know how many spokes you need to adjust and how many turns for each one. A curve in a tire is going to encompass multiple spokes.
Thanks for elaborating. Completely agree with this process.
Called several bike shops in Charlotte NC to be told you couldn’t straighten a warped rim with the spokes and they would need replacing.
which do you tighten? the spokes with light marker on them?
@everberry51 tighten in the direction they need to move from center hub to which side you’re moving to
This video randomly popped up and I m glad it did
what purpose did this serve?
Мммм.. чувствуете этот запах? Высокой точностью запахло!
Mit den Seitenschlag ist es einfach. Aber den Höhenschlag bekomme ich einfach nicht hin
You can also do something similar with a playing card to make a cool clicky sound
what is its function
You can use the brake calipers as guides too...
Mood instantly lifted. Thank you for this
This is going straight into my favorites playlist
Yea. I’m about to do this on my pit bike, it’s got a little wiggle to it. Probably from popping the clutch to do wheelies lol
I thought you were trying to make it sound like a motorcycle.
You can also true your wheels by the brake pads against the rims to determine where to adjust your spokes
Then you realise your axle shaft is at two different settings ....
I was today years old when I learned bicycle spokes could be adjusted.
In part 1 it moved both directions. In part 2 is only moves up. What is this fixing?
I thought he want to make superbike sound on his bicycle
I always end up making the situation worse than better
Thank you for posting!
The way you explained this is SO clear. Thank you
Muss man doch nur an der Stelle festziehen oder?
thanks for bringing the late 90s back./..this is older than you are!!!
How many times did he snip the blue zip tie to get it the right distance?
I always used the brake pads as a guide when I did not have a truing stand
When is the x-rayed part?
Need to put one for the spokes too bro. Nostalgia...
I actually did this 5 years back when i was putting new spokes on my dirt jumper and i later on when to a bike shop to get a new chain and even they where impresses when i said that i laced with wheels myself
Learned this trick at Sunflower bike shop when I was a kid working a summer job. Been doing it ever since
Now he can drive into oncoming traffic more efficiently
沒說明鋼絲頭要調整的方向呀😂😂
What's wrong with the cat in the background??
I sometimes wonder how many Nolan Ryan rookie cards met my spokes.
I didn't even know that you can adjust that
Wait, the spokes don’t just hold it?
I did not understand what was meant by the video
I didn't understand, what does the video mean?
I did not understand, what is the purpose of the video?
.I didn't understand what the video was about.
😴
There’s a common theme with shaco players and how they look irl
Bro do you keep finches? I can hear the beep of zebra finch
🤗🤫🤝❤️❤️❤️
I did not know you could adjust the spokes...
Your consistency is inspiring-keep going
DISLIKE for lack of information
In our bike shop we would would adjust the brake calipers and use the pads to true the wheels.
Just use a bit of tape on a bit of chalk there so it draws on the spots that need adjusting. Much simpler, less guessing "did that move?"
am so sick of the overuse of hack for basic tips.
What if u start with the faulty part
A lot of kids nowadays Don't know how easy it is to turn and straighten a wheel out
I didnt even know you could adjust those spokes of the wheel😅
That's actually a really good little trick to know
I never knew that tightening spokes was a thing
I liked the part where he explained what this is for.
Primeramente si vas a girar la cabecilla de un radio, asegúrate de sostener el radio con alicate para que no gire junto con la cabecilla, de lo contrario no apretará ni aflojará...el vídeo solo sirve para mostrar el método de la brida para detectar roce