How to true a bent or tacoed bicycle wheel 

Hi Joey, thanks for taking the time to show use truing a wheel , great work. keep them coming

Thank you. I searched "truing a bent rim" and most of the videos were just about truing an out of true rim. My rim is BENT. This is exactly what I needed!

Wow, that came out pretty good. I got one with a bend way smaller than that and this video just gave me some hope for it.

I’ve watched a bunch of videos on this topic, and you helped the most. Thanks!

Hi, I've got a 27 inch wheel that's quite warped - somewhat worse than what you just fixed. I'm so glad you showed what can be done and took the time to show how to do this repair properly. I think I'll give your method a try. Can't hurt, since any bike shop would toss it and try and sell me a new one. Regards, Tom

Thanks for posting Joey, I have road bike I'm looking to rehabilitate on the cheap that has bent wheels. Your video helped me save some money.

This is amazing! You have taught me something new today. thank you!

A great wheel building in my town speaks about trueing a wheel with only tension, so much so he could probably do it with his eyes closed, so ive been doing my wheel trueing with nothing but tension to the pair of spokes following the ones i am tightening, works like a charm man

Your a star 🌟 so glad I found this!! My bikes playing up big time!!

Dude! Just the info and method i needed, fantastic thank you

Precise and to the exact point Joey many thanks for your tutorial!👍😎

Thank you for this video I really needed this.

Thanks for a very useful tutorial.

Amazing! This helped me so much! I had 2 bent vintage rims i didn't know how to straighten. First i was using just the spoke tension to true it. What a drama that was. This bending technique is so simple but very effective. Thank you very much!

I took my wheel to a shop yesterday and it is nowhere near that bad and all they wanted to do is sell me a new one for 90$, I think I'll try this method, thanks

Really helpful video, I had my back wheel of my mountain bike that was also badly warped and this helped me fix it which made it a lot better

Imma try this on my vintage steel rim thx bro

Great video!

I have to say, you are good Joey.

Great Video. I just bought mountain bike that has a bent rear rim almost ikea what you just fixed. I am going to attempt to fix it. Thank you

Hi joey i'm amazed to see this video and thanks for making me uderstand the concepts of straightening wheel. one question i want to ask that how? you shiftor move your camera while making your video it would be much difficult...but how you manage it is amazing!

thank you. this content is helpful.

just found your channel and subbed good vids keep em coming

Amazing. I would have thought that rim is done

Amazing job!

Master wheel truing

Very helpful thank you!

Using a pen you make a mark on the rim helping you measurehow bent it is on the opposite side of your mark for an inside-out you tighten the spokes inside out on the opposite side of all of your mark

good job

Nice, i cant figure out where to tighten and where to not. Its some kinda rocket science. I actually super glued the ones that got loose. Lol

Nice work man! Do you think this is possible with double wall 700C rim? And one more question... What is this great music that starts at 5:12?

Can you post a tool list of what you used in the video....its a super handy equipment set!

tks for sharing 💐😁!!!!!!!

Thanks!

I get these all the time... The local bike shop just tells the customers to buy a new wheel. And throws these away...i get them from the landfill. There are 5 bike shops here...plus Wal-Mart ....Academy ...Target. So how many bike wheels do u think i come across a week in a high traffic...university area near a major bike trail? Hundreds...

Nice

Hey man, i’ve done this with an old 70s tour bike. Unfortunately I broke the spoke! Should I replace the spoke and try again or should i just buy a new wheel. Let me know, would love your input. Thanks

Why didn't you just ask super girl to fix it?

nice work

I was riding with my friend and he hit my rear wheel from behind and it got crooked realy bad. To the point that it touched the sides of the frame and couldn't spin at all. What i did after whatching a couple videos including this one, is that i loosened the spokes, tried to bend the wheel by force as straight as i could making it spin and with a color maker rubbing the rim that was bent while spinning the wheel. Then bending the colored area. After that i put back the wheel and repeated the process wih my finger instead of the marker. And loosening the spokes where the rim ouched the tip of my finger and tightening from the other exact side.

Nice job, and I have a question. Had an accident on my bike a couple months ago, 17 year old bike, trying to keep as original as possible. Came around a corner, brushed a telephone pole with my right shoulder, pulled bike to the right and threw me to the left onto the ground. Getting back on bike, I noticed right away the front wheel was warped but not too bad. Got home and trued it the best I could using similar to what you did here, though thanks for pointing out manually bending with spokes loose, I didn't try that, oops. Anyways, got it fairly straight, but the forces placed on the bike left a small dimple going across one spot of the rim. There are steel rims, not even alloy, single wall. I'm guessing to fix something like that dimple I'd have to hammer it out?? There was a small flat spot on the wheel too. Anyways, that dimpled area caused a change in braking so that there's now a thump, thump, thump, and it's really annoying. Think it could be hammered back smooth? Or just give up and get a new wheel?

I have a bike without spokes. It's these racing wheels. How do you straighten the wheel then?

I had to turn the sound off when the music started. Really marred the whole video

Hi Sir i wanted to know if you could fix my 24 inch rim back wheel and how much would you charge please your info would be much appreciated

You could cut this video down to like 4 mins easily if you cut out the parts where you repeat yourself 5 times .... just trying to help. Quick concise steps and clear directions make for a great video

How do you know how tight to tighten the spokes ?

So what is a course of a rim bend?

Thanks for the guide! For me its not worth it because it won’t take the torture afterwards

Are you in Los Angeles.

Thank you!!!!!

no need to loosen the spokes l thought. well l use feet that are stronger so by hand maybe not strong to fight spokes and rim flex in other places. first l thougt you were trying to bend rim down on both side of wood but guess not but rather letting wood push rim up towards you and bend at two hand areas.

maybe

Does it work if you just tighten the spokes without trying to bend the wheel back

I find 29ers or 700c rims to be unforgiving for bringing back from the dead....26ers to are like the undead. HA HA kick the hell out of them and give them life.

Tamil

instructions unclear, need a new wheelset now

You didn't do a very good job...A good wheel tech can get that rim 99.9% true...Plus you have a dip in the rim.