FWIW also makes for a really nice light build.
Sup backed out of driveway with bike on trunk rack right into a parked car, knocked her brand new wheel way outta true. I fixed it mostly by strategically slamming it on the ground. Tiny bit of fine tune with spoke wrench. First time trying slam technique, can’t believe it works.
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It works, but for how long? Slamming a wheel is a trailside fix, something you can do to get to the end of the ride. I wouldn’t be surprised if that thing starts breaking spokes after too long
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Kinda depends on spoke tension afterward and whether any of the spokes were stretched to yield.
Good point, the slams were relatively gentle so hopefully didn’t do too much damage.
Is the proper way to fix to detension then retension?
The proper way is to replace the now partially compromised rim.
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That’s probably going to be a hard sell for her. Thanks for the feedback.
I think I oversold the “way outta true” and “slamming” in my first post.
Wheel was slightly wobbly and I performed a gentle hit on the carpet (with tire mounted) to get it 95% back to normal.
furthering your gentle boyfriend course of action, just collect evidence:
look closely for a hop
and run a tensiometer over all of them to look for outliers
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On the other hand , if you need to rebuild it in 2 year vs 5+ years what’s the big deal. Just fix it until it works fine and then replace the rim/spokes finally when you need to.
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Yolo. Replace when it becomes a problem. Then it’s an easy sell. Also if you drove more often you wouldn’t pull a doofus like that. 
Are you suggesting I buy a car then drive around Seattle so that sup can magically get better at backing out of driveways on narrow streets that probably shouldn’t have on-street parking on both sides? Wut?
Yes. Also it should be a truck. Also you should practice backing and forwarding every chance you get.
some drills you can do with her to help her get better:
- drive only in reverse all the time
- drive forward, but she has to face rearward and steer with her arms stuck out behind her while you operate the pedals
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The best drill is to get RHD car, and you can sit in the passenger seat making motor noises and pretending to drive while she really drives. Not sure how that helps but it would be funny.
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A++ trolling aside, two things come to mind:
- trueness of the hub flanges after a significant rim warp event
- integrity of an aluminum rim after a warp event
it may last for years, but it could also inconveniently fail sooner in a number of ways. the safe thing to do is at least re-lace to a new rim with new spokes, and eyeball the flange runout in the process.
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This thread delivers.
What’s the consensus on Nextie rims? Looking at their 650b Grav offering.
This was the general response I receved recently here about Nextie:
[quote=“blackholelectron, post:571, topic:21898”]light-bicycle or nextie are the big names in china carbon, depends on the width you want or whether you need asymmetric or not but there are good prices to be had from either brandI went nextie and purchased through an ebay deal and was very satisfied, rims were packaged well, had been individually inspected for weight/tolerance and each came with a little tag showing the numbers from the inspections, seemed very much like a legit business and not a “they fell out the back of a factory” situation
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My Light Bicycle rims are still going strong, would recommend.