Aiolos Pro 3

A customer dropped off a Bontrager rear wheel for us.
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There's lateral runout in one spot. It's pretty obvious on the truing stand,
but when I spin the wheel by itself, it's almost imperceptible to the naked eye.
I might be able to feel it if I lightly apply the brake and engage it.
I felt the spokes near the runout area and found no spoke deformation.

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But the center was pretty far off.
To minimize the effect of the lateral runout,
I'm applying tension at a phase 90° offset from the runout phase.

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I trued the wheel while centering it.
The rim was pulling toward the non-freehub side,
so to center it by tightening I'd need to
tighten the already-tight freehub side even more.
Given this rear wheel had pretty significant left-right spoke tension imbalance,
loosening the non-freehub side further was also difficult,
so I managed to center it using mostly just increased tightening on the freehub side.

What concerns me is that the frame this wheel's likely on is probably a Trek,
(and I want to be clear—I'm not implying Trek riders go around buying Bontrager wheels separately
when they don't even ride Trek bikes)
,
it's a fairly recent model with a fairly wide rim,
and since it's a rim brake setup,
there's a high chance the frame-side brake is direct-mount spec.
Since it was a representative who brought it in, I couldn't get the full details.
If I correct that amount of center deviation, the direct-mount brake will need position adjustment.

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