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So i've just built my 6th pair of wheels. In a bid to "always improve" I'm wondering what people would accept as an acceptable amount of wobble on a pair of handbuilt wheels.
Currently ~ 0.5mm lateral wobble on both, about 0.5mm out of round on the front, a bit more on the back (~1mm) as I completely forgot to check it until I'd nearly finished. Spoke tensions /side are all within 5% of each other according to my park tension meter.
Personally I'm reasonably happy - I'm never actually that bothered how round they are, as it strikes me that even tension is more important in keeping them straight long term, but it's always nice to do things better each time.
Cheers!
jon
that's willy waving and you know it
FWIW I am always less concerned about roundness as you always have some imperfection/wobble in the weld/joint IME. + I assume pneumatic tyres will cope with the odd mm - not to say I dont try though.
park tension meter are serious money never bothered tbh.
Not intended as willy waving. I've come across wheels (usually road) that are as best I can tell absolutely straight - the ones that came with my Condor were close to perfection and after well over 20,000miles are still only a couple of mm out. Sure with discs it doesn't matter, but as I said, it's nice to do things "right", and to do that you need to know what's acceptable.
I bought the tension meter 4 or 5 years back - iirc on special offer at CRC was about £30 and as a relative newbie with 2 sets to build there and then seemed a decent idea. I can build without it happily enough - just plink the spokes, but Stans rims don't like being overtensioned, so I thought it was worth using this time.
Half a mill? Still plenty of room for improvement then 😛