How to Dish a Bicycle Wheel | TheBikeTube.com

In this vid Mike shows how to use a dishing wheel to make sure your bicycle wheel is properly dished.
A properly dished wheel is centered over its hub. When centered, the rim is known to be laterally (side to side) true. If the dishing tool finds one side of the hub to be further from the rim than the other it will be necessary to tighten the spokes on that side of the wheel and hub and loosen the spokes on the other. You will need a dishing tool, spoke wrench and some kind of truing stand or device (also can use front fork) Ride on amigos.

[NoEcologyNoEconomy]

You can make a decent dish gauge by laying the wheel horizontally on a flat table and putting shims of equal height on opposite sides of the rim. Then, you slide something under the hub and flip the wheel to compare sides. Any number of household things can be adjusted to set the height. Until I tried it, I didn't realize how heavily rear wheels are dished to center the rim in the frame so it tracks straight. Apparently wheels are designed to handle the spoke imbalance.

[korgmatose]

Nicely put together; thanks for posting these videos!

[jdp]

Great video. Nice and simple.

Now I just gotta go try it.

👍🏽👊🏽🙏🏽

[SweetLoujdoggy]

No, the rim should be centered between the locknuts. It doesn't matter if the rim is for a cassette, freewheel, internal gear, disc brake, rim brake or a front wheel. If the rim is not centered between the locknuts, then it won't be centered in the frame. Front wheels without discs will have a symmetrical dish, rear wheels, like this cassette one will have an asymmetrical dish.

[scriewy]

i dont get something, how do i get to the situation that the spokes are tensioned equally before i start making precise 1/4 turns ?
i mean the final adjustment of 1/4 turns is pretty precise, but who said i already tightened the spokes to some equality before the final adjustments, because i dont know how much to tighten the spokes from the beginning.
did you use the tension gauge tool ?

thanks.

[leonoff]

is it possible to fix bent clincher beads

[xxbondsxx]

how much are the tools? I love working on bikes but it seems like i need a new tool each week

[NicholasLuna]

I'm just staring with building wheel, but in the first part It looks like you build it wrong.
I mean, I just read and saw the graphs on Sheldon Brown's Web, and the inner spokes are different in this video, the ones on the non-drive are right, but it look like in the other side are wrong.
I'm confused right now.
Could I start building it like the tutorial of the 36-holes wheel tutorial?
I mean, first one side, then the other side, and then the thing of "over over under" with the 3-cross thing?

[jgcamp]

that gap, might it be because the axle isn't perfectly centered in the front wheel hub ? The wheel should be tried laterally & radially as the end goal of a wheel build.

[yetijoeyetijoe]

Wait, if there is a gap on the non-drive side hub, doesn't that mean that the rim needs to go towards the non-drive side? Still learning and am stuck at the dishing part of wheel building.

[YuckyLuckyDucky]

Phucking good catch! I thought the dude was just nervous and avoiding camera eye contact lol.

[YuckyLuckyDucky]

It's weird, but I always thought it doesn't make sense that the rim should be center over the ENTIRE hub. Rather, I thought that the shell should be center to the axle. Anyway, can anyone imagine how the wheel will look like if the shell was completely to the right or left and you had to dish it? The wheel will be rolling on it's mid side possibly? Strange idea about dishing from locknut to locknut. I suppose most wheels are made so the shell is close to center. Just a thought, don't kill me pls

[mtostie]

This video is thin on details! Show the finished wheel.

[valamaas]

Wait a minute. One side has a cassette holder. So that side is going to be pointing out to one side more than the other side.

[werideny]

omg is he blind? hes super talented for a blind guy then

[lordnose]

HereIsScott 3 years ago - Sure your comment is good but your command of English isn't your vocation.

[HereIsScott]

Sure your good at what you do but making videos isn't your vocation.