Dishing - truing wheel

stemacca
stemacca Posts: 75
edited July 2010 in MTB workshop & tech
Hello,

Just looking for a little advice. I am currently tweaking/customizing my bike and have been bought a wheel truing tool complete with dishing device.
My question is when I dish my front wheel it is out by about 5mm should this be central? My front wheel has a disc brake so I didnt know if this was the reason.
I know 5mm is not a lot but the wheel is quite out here and there both vertical and horizontal and I am getting into bike maintenance. Also my rear wheel is obviously offset so how do you go about dishing the rear wheel.

Any advice would be most appreciated.

Ta

Steven

Comments

  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    most forks do not need an offset dish.

    so the rim should be dished the same on each side.

    Most frame do not need an offset rear wheel so again the distance is the same.

    have another read of Sheldons pages on wheels.
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
    Parktools :?:SheldonBrown
  • Tank-slapper
    Tank-slapper Posts: 968
    As Nick says, the vast majority of frames and forks are designed to take wheels with equal dish on both sides.

    You can spend hours and hours truing and retruing and never get a wheel absolutely straight. It doesn't really matter if there are deviations of a few mm, especially with disc brakes.

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