Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
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- Wilmslow, Cheshire
Well it certainly turned in the fork afterwards, so seems like a viable procedure to me.
Wheel build disaster!
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andrew_s
Legendary Member
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- Gloucester
Spontaneously pringling is a symptom of an over tensioned wheel - i.e. spokes too tight.
If you can catch it just starting, when removing a slight wobble results in a bigger wobble a bit further round the wheel, you can recover by backing off all the spokes half a turn or so, but if the wheel pringles properly, it's slack right off, check the rim is still straight, and start again.
Old rims like the Module 3 aren't as stiff as modern rims, so they pringle at a lower tension.
Whacking the wheel on the road to knock out a pringle is what you do when the wheel has been pringled by a sideways force on the rim, in a crash or whatever. It won't solve too much spoke tension.
If you can catch it just starting, when removing a slight wobble results in a bigger wobble a bit further round the wheel, you can recover by backing off all the spokes half a turn or so, but if the wheel pringles properly, it's slack right off, check the rim is still straight, and start again.
Old rims like the Module 3 aren't as stiff as modern rims, so they pringle at a lower tension.
Whacking the wheel on the road to knock out a pringle is what you do when the wheel has been pringled by a sideways force on the rim, in a crash or whatever. It won't solve too much spoke tension.
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Ajax Bay
Guru
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- East Devon
Interested to know more about this. Can you help? Are you just saying that, in general, 'modern rims' tend to be a bit wider?
Interesting 'slow twitch' article.
Mugshot
Cracking a solo.
Could you adjust your brakes to compensate?
Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
- Location
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
The forum members wheel in question had indeed suffered an impact of a tree variety and the other forum member who was using the brute force technique referred to @dan_bo was resolving said impact pringle issue.
mickle
innit
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There's no need for that, he was just asking a question.
OP
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I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
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- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
Just dismantled this poor wheel and glad to say rim has sprung back to shape as far as I can tell by laying it on my wife's granite kitchen worktops (It's ok, she's out 
). Doubt I will have chance to try again now until after weekend as I am already behind in my chores so it could be next week before I attempt it again.
Just to re-cap the points made. It seems the general concensus is that the spoke tension was too high? I find this hard to accept because I know I have gone silly tight on wheel builds in the past and never experienced this before. However, in the absence of any other suggestions I will stop the tensioning a bit sooner in the next build.....
). Doubt I will have chance to try again now until after weekend as I am already behind in my chores so it could be next week before I attempt it again.Just to re-cap the points made. It seems the general concensus is that the spoke tension was too high? I find this hard to accept because I know I have gone silly tight on wheel builds in the past and never experienced this before. However, in the absence of any other suggestions I will stop the tensioning a bit sooner in the next build.....
