Stomp Straighten a Bicycle Wheel

Step 6 Knee Technique

Here's another method to bend the wheel. Try out any technique that seems like it might work.
The wheel is now straight enough to ride again.

If you want it totally straight, now that you've got the tight kinks out, use a spoke wrench.
That only works if you've gotten the tight bends out.
Messing with the spokes is for gentler bends.
Tighten the spokes to move the rim toward that side.
Loosen a spoke to let the rim move away from it.
Hit the the spokes to make them ring.
The pitch of the tone you hear tells you the spoke tension.
If the spoke tension is totally non-uniform the wheel will get bent again just from riding it.

Comments

[savant77]

This should come in handy for trailside repairs, thanks for sharing man!

[ortsa]

i hope you dont continue to use wheels repaired in this way.

[Darwinfish]

Of course he doesn't actually use them, he goes to all the trouble of straightening them and then throws them away afterwards. (Make a passive agressive comment, you'll get a sarcastic answer.)

Thanks for the Instructable Tim, I'll have to try this out sometime. :-)

[{tauney}]

woohoo! I'll give this a try when I get home--too bent to be trued, this ought to do the trick tho!

[JerryMopar]

Good instructable!!! I will have to try this on one of my "tacoed" wheels I got from an aquired bike!!

[JerryMopar]

I just did it in a sitch I have nearby, worked GREAT, just needed to true it up a little bit