Untrue wheel

jon3619

Heya

I was wondering if someone could tell me if my wheel is badly untrue
In this video

https://youtu.be/3o53H0YIaV0

Is it dangerous??

Regards

cooldad

You need to check your privacy settings.

jon3619

What do you mean?

jon3619

Does it work now?

Chunkers1980

Yes, but that might be just the tyre, but maybe not

jon3619

Is it within acceptable tolerance or should I get it looked at?

Cheers

Chunkers1980

Who knows. Need to see the rim and its deflection

The Rookie

The wheel could be perfectly true and the tyre distorted, so you need to remove the tyre and check again.

If the wheel is that far out it needs truing as the loading on it will just make it worse until it buckles and you need a new rim, or the tyre starts hitting the frame and ruins that for you (you would be amazed at how fast a tyre can wear an aluminium frame).

jon3619

I recently had the tyres replaced by a bike shop and they didn't mention this movement in the wheel. To be honest I'm not very good at taking things apart, so if that wobble might be unsafe I might have to take it back in.

cooldad

You really need to be able to fix a puncture and replace a tyre.

The Rookie

As CD says going out on a bike unable to fix a puncture is taking a big gamble, so now is the ideal time to learn how to remove the wheel and tyre to change a tube.