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Bicycle Equipment : How to Straighten a Bicycle Wheel

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Uploaded by on Oct 28, 2009

The best way to straighten a bicycle wheel is on a truing standing, but this can also be done using a bicycle's brake pads. Learn about tightening or loosening a tire based on which side it is rubbing with help from the owner of a bike company in this free video on straightening bicycle wheels.

Expert: Shane Jackson
Contact: www.evolutionbikeco.com
Bio: Shane Jackson has 20 years of experience racing BMX bikes.
Filmmaker: Michael Burton

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  • @cstudly1 hes trying to teach you someting, which is im sure what you were looking for, and you flame him...you sir are an idiot.

  • "the best way to fix this is on a trewing stand. you can do it on your buysicle using your brake pads but its a bit more harder"

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  • very useful, had to do this today after my friend crashed my good mountain bike. I though the wheel was done and but we spent an hour at it tightening and loosening the spokes and its back to normal.

  • very informative dude, many thanks.

  • dumb question but does it matter if i take the tire/tube off or can i do this without having to do that

  • i don't have a trewing stand :(

  • are the spoke threads on all bikes oppisite thread??

  • Very good, top stuff....always been a damn mystery to me......many thanks.

  • thanks for the great video it helped alot

  • 2:46 intermmm...

  • @DaneBowers01 this means thers a hop in it so its more egg shaped than round sorry.. aha may be if you put somthing on to the bike seat(nice and tight and at the right angles) tern it back and dowen to wards the wheel then you could use the qwik reles on the seat pole to ajust the distence from the rim just a thort... glad you asked that qestion now i can try it .. sorry bout speling

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