Can bent bicycle rims be fixed?
Sunday, April 25th, 2010 at
4:21 pm
I recently crashed due to braking on insanely bumpy roads under a tunnel. I had to stop because of a huge puddle in front of me but when my rear wheel hit a bump, it sent me over the bars. Everything else has been fixed, besides the handle bar tape. I noticed the front wheel is slightly off because when I spin it, it rubs against the brake pad, every revolution. Can this be fixed like how wheels are trued or do I have to replace the who wheel?
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see if any of the spokes in the wheels or bent you would be better off getting a new one
Most likely the wheel just needs truing.
The video shows using a truing stand, but you can use your brakes as a guide if you want to try it yourself. You’ll have to buy a spoke wrench. They’re cheap.
Edit: if the rim is actually bent, it’s toast most likely.
yes for example me and my friends were riding bikes and i crashed in to one of my friends and bent her rim and now she is getting a new bike i thought that was unnecessary but it was her choice now my brother bent his rim twice who knows how and we took it to a bike shop and they replaced it for us for i think 80$ but i might be wrong depends were you go.
I would recommend a shop dedicated to bikes they know what they are doing and will do a good job
so good luck
the easyest thing you can do is bring it to a bike store
It depends on how bad the damage is. If it is just rubbing against the brake pad, it may be repairable, but as it’s been in an accident the rim should be inspected for cracks or any other damage.
I’d suggest taking it to a reputable cycle store,and get hem to look at it.
You can either get it trued, or it may require a new rim, in which case, a new wheel may be about the same price.
Just get it trued, it is not that bad all but the worst taco’d rims can be repaired.
A Taco’d rim is one that is bent like a taco shell, I’ve saw a rim bent to nearly a 45deg. angle be straitened by a good patient mechanic.
you may have stretched a spoke and that one is lower tension now
truing may fix it
or you may need spoke replacement[s]
see if they all feel equally tight
if not one or more is stretched
you can do this by bumping the spoke
say when you wrecked, your hand went into the spokes
that can do it
or maybe the wheel itself is bent
hard to say
they all have the same symptom – wheel out of true
bent wheel is harder to fix
sometimes adjustment can do it
sometimes you can beat the bend out
sometimes you need a new wheel
wle