butterbean
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If a wheel is cheap and not made for our use, then extra maintenance such as dishing and tensioning won't make the wheel any stronger and may in fact make it worse. Spokes that are too tight can break just as easily as loose spokes. A cheap wheel is a cheap wheel. Tightening the spokes till you can walk on the rim is a guarantee it will break. Some people are idiots, thinking that excessive repair/adjustment/maintenance will make something stronger. Many times it makes things weaker. Overtighten a nut and bolt, you'll either strip threads or twist the bolt right in half. I twisted a few bolts in half back when I was a noob. Tightening spokes till you can walk on the rim is definitely overtightening. It may be ok for awhile, but eventually something will break. All that is needed for any wheel to stay true is equal and adequate spoke tension. Over time, some spokes will still loosen up. Tightening them over tight is not going to prevent any loosening, and will probably even cause premature loosening. This is common knowledge. And dishing the spokes is only necessary if you can't get your chain to line up any other way. Most people can flip the sprocket one way or the other and get the chain to line up. I myself have a 4 stroke with a custom jackshaft, and I can move the output sprocket along the jackshaft to adjust chain alignment without moving the engine or the rear sprocket, so there is absolutely no reason I would ever need to dish a wheel. I wonder if that retard that's recommending it even knows what it means. Most wheels come with the hub perfectly centered in the rim. The center of the hub would line up with the middle of the rim. Dishing is when you loosen the spokes on one side and tighten them on the other side, bringing the center of the hub to the left or right of the center of the rim, offsetting your chain alignment. There is absolutely no reason to do this, other than to adjust chain alignment, and only as a last resort. To the OP, that Weinmann rim is double walled alloy with braces between the walls and 12g spokes. If the customer did in fact damage his rim by jumping curbs, the Weinmann rim is pretty much built for that sort of riding. To the retard telling people to overkill their rims, just stop. Any wheel that is properly tensioned (properly means adequately and equally, not overkill) should be able to handle the use that its built for. No amount of dishing and tensioning will allow it to handle use that it isnt built for, and overkilling it will make it not even handle the use it was originally designed for, at least not for very long. If you have a new rim thats in proper shape and you properly maintain it, it will handle the use it was built for. God am I glad you're on my ignore list and I dont have to read any more of your stupid posts. You're a snob with an attitude problem, not a member of this community. I dont know what your problem is, but you cant expect everybody to be a know-it-all like you. FYI, most know-it-alls dont really know sh*t anyway, you included. Have a nice day on my ignore list.
