A customer dropped off a Ixirium Équipe S for me to work on.


It's brand new.
The front wheel had its center true, but
when I did the spoke trueing, it went off, so I had to true it again.
The rear wheel barely had any runout, but the center was off,
so I fixed that while I was truing the spokes anyway.
Actually, when you're doing final spoke trueing and centering,
in a lot of cases it's easier when the center is already off
because it locks you into tightening from one direction.
Except for when the rear wheel is really far off toward the anti-freewheel side.
(↑The freewheel side is tight and can't be tightened further +
don't want to loosen the anti-freewheel side)


It's brand new.
The front wheel had its center true, but
when I did the spoke trueing, it went off, so I had to true it again.
The rear wheel barely had any runout, but the center was off,
so I fixed that while I was truing the spokes anyway.
Actually, when you're doing final spoke trueing and centering,
in a lot of cases it's easier when the center is already off
because it locks you into tightening from one direction.
Except for when the rear wheel is really far off toward the anti-freewheel side.
(↑The freewheel side is tight and can't be tightened further +
don't want to loosen the anti-freewheel side)