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buckled wheel on sons bike

Euphoria1z · 2014-07-09 13:43:10

Hi My 10 year old sons junior mountain bike (Apollo sandstorm, 24" wheels) has a buckled rear wheel which I noticed yesterday. The bike is only 2 months old bought from Halfords. its buckled quite a bit as in its quite obvious whens he's riding it, rubbing against the brakes. I took it to a bike shop (I assumed Halfords…

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[Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie

9 August 2014 at 12:13AM

SteveJW wrote: »

the satisfaction when you make the first ride and all the spokes ping as the tension is taken out of them makes it worth while

There's not much satisfaction in that noise, you shouldn't get a peep out of it the first time you ride it. If the spokes ping, either you haven't taken the torsion out of them or you haven't got the spoke tensions even.

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