Dish Advise

[Goose]

Just bought a nice road bike to improve my MTB endurance, bike is maybe 3 weeks old.

I was checking the wheels for true and decided to check dish at the same time on my Feedback Sports Truing Stand. I flipped the rear wheel in the stand and the wheel is a good 1/4" to 3/8" maybe more, out of true. I thought I must have been doing something wrong so I put back in the bike and sure enough, the rim is very out of dish just missing the brake pads.

Here where it gets interesting, the wheel is out of dish away from the cassette. I have read dish can be thrown out when pressure is put on the tire but it's supposed to pull toward the cassette. I guess this means more spoke tension is on the non-cassette side? The spokes are straight pull on the non-cassette side and 1 cross on the cassette. When I check spoke tension by hand the cassette side feels higher but maybe the crosses are fooling me.


Any advise or experience from guys in the know would be great, especially on the best method to fix the problem. I'd also like to know what are the effects of out of dish other than poor braking and accelerated wear on the rims.

BTW, it's almost perfectly true, maybe 3 sheets of paper out.

Thanks,

Scott

 

[woody]

Spokes should be tighter on cassette side because they are at a steeper angle.

I'd loosen each non-drive side nipple 1/4 turn and then tighten each cassette side nipple 1/4 turn, then recheck in the truing stand. Repeat if necessary.

 

[Delish]

Just curious...Mavic Aksium?

If the bike is 3 weeks old the best way to solve the problem is to have the shop make it right. That's what good shops do. They'll do pretty much what woody describes. If you do it yourself you'll want to make sure the spokes don't twist when you are re-dishing otherwise you wheel will go out of true later.

 

[Goose]

Nope just standard wheels on a lower end Specialized Roubiax. Think it's their Axis 1.0 which forum's review them poorly.

I'm a clyde, so I was planning on building something solid down the road. Guess I'm surprised/confused. All the info I've seen say's the wheel should dish toward the cassette when you put pressure on the tire. Guess these were built really poorly?

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