Spoke Maintenance on your Motorcycle 

Grabbing the two spokes is such a great idea. I always hated losing my place half way around the wheel and having to go back and count it out. This makes it one-two buckle your shoe.

I just ordered some replacement spokes and a torque wrench. Staying up on this will definitely save me money in the long run

Great job Jay! Love the grab two idea. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the video! Adjusting spokes is not a big mystery to me anymore.

Great video and couldn't have came at a better time. Came off the track last weekend and had some spokes that needed attended to.

I need to do this on my bikes. Ty for showing me how to do it properly

Nicely done on this video sir, I have added a dual sport to my channel, I have not announced it yet, but I am sure you can guess its a fun bike since I am watching all your tips and tricks videos. Thanks again and keep up the great work sir. dale

Thanx for the info,,just done mine and quite a few where loose :)

Thank you Jay!

Great vids, makes my days so much better :)

Another great tech tip guys - thanks!

Thanks for The tips

Best spoke vid on the net.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge sir👍🏻

Thanks😊👍

Even though this is super easy to do I always forget the pattern. Thank you so much

Great vid! Thx

You're awesome man!

Did you let the air out of the tire or is is not necessary? Thanks for the video, appreciate all the help🤘🏻

Does this toque wrench have a predetermined setting? Or can you adjust it?

Dude your awesome

Does this only apply of the rim is new, if an older rim that got a few knocks needed spokes, is it ok to pull a little harder on some to straighten the rim?

Nice stuff!

Where did u get that torque/spoke wrench? What's it called?

I’ve had a brand new ktm spokes spin sometimes you got to hold back on the spoke

Good video!

If I have this issue, and have attempted to correct it but instead made it much worse, will loosening all the spokes act as a reset? Then going through and torquing them down to reach proper true?

Not finished with video so you might answer the question I am about to ask, how many inch pounds or foot pounds are you using? I know the manual has a recommendation but last time I used there recommendations my front wheel started to wobble. I ride yamahas, good job on your videos, I watch your tire change video as I am changing tires, I have become really good at it but it’s just habit at this point 👍🏽

Tusk around $103 for this tool at Rocky Mountain

"Before I met you I didn't do it" LOL

Nice content, is the set you using suitable for CRF250L 2014 spoke wheels and SM Wheel?

How should i start? So right now a few of my back tire spokes are so loose that they move side to side in the rim and the others dont. Do i tighten the looser ones a little first and then do the method you showed in the video or how should i start.

You guys have a link for that spoke wrench that you're using in the video there's no way to find it there's no links for it I checked on Amazon they don't have it, are we supposed to get this tool if it's not available on the Rocky mountain ATV site, and it's not available on Amazon so are we supposed to just fabricate this tool with hopes and dreams?

Thank you for the video. How do you validate that the spokes are not overtightened?

thank you, great info. My wrench is adjustable in torque so question: What is a good torque setting? Currently I just use it as a typical wrench to check tightness. If the torque is particular to bikes, i have a 2019 WR450F and 2014 CRF 450R

How do you know what in-lb?

How do you know what inch lb to torque spokes to?

How do you find the torque spec for different bikes/wheels

Why do u have to do it in that sequence?

I bought a used FE501 with only a couple hours on it. I rode it a few times and then bought a Tusk spoke torque wrench and went through this process and no matter how many cycles I go through I keep finding loose spokes. Some of the nipples look like they are buried on the spoke. Rear wheel has quite a bit of run out. Tried tightening spokes to pull it back into close to true, but it seems like there are no threads left to tighten on some of these spokes. Am I SOL on my brand new wheels and they need a rebuild? Very frustrating because I don't want to end up with broken spokes on a ride...

Where did you get the tool from?

after every ride you fully detail every aspect of you bike AND then you also do maintenance on EVERY component on your bike. Do you ever sleep, eat, or do anything other than work on your dirtbikes?

Dirt bike wizard

Why put the valve stem nut all the way up to the cap? I thought it was supposed to be tightened down to the rim?

= spoke tension doesnt = a true wheel.

Yes dude, but do that on a dirt bike seems easy! it´s driving me crazy when I do this on my HD start fighting betewen torque-truing-hubbing! so when its trued and you start to torque, even on small increments everything goes to hell and I have to start over!

Think it's a good idea to back them off and apply some never seize every couple of years?

Light a new ssr150 No mechanic wants to work on it. Have to resort to fixing this thing myself

Shouldn't the nut on the valve stem go against the rim??

It’s not that hard doing spokes by sound if your hearing is normal.

How about a link for the tool

Tightening them all to the same torque seems off to me.

$300 and out of stock, for anyone wondering

That is not how to torque nipples, nuts. etc. You're checking the torque by listening to the click, but that doesn't tell how tight the nipples are. It's just telling you they're at or over the value you want. From the several I've seen you check, none of the nipples moved. So if, for example, you set the wrench to 48 in-lbs, you only know that the ones you checked that didn't turn are 48 in-lbs or more. One might be 48, another 60, another 56, another 49 etc. They will all make the wrench click. The correct way to tighten fasteners to a specific torque is to loosen them to below the desired value and turn them until the wrench clicks. They have to turn before the wrench clicks. If you're really concerned about hitting a specific torque, like 48 in-lbs, the best way would be to torque them all to say, 16, then 32 then 48. If you only tighten them to 48, as you move around the wheel, tightening nipples that are opposite of ones you already tightened will increase their torque because you're pulling up on them.

This is all very nice. But torquening all the spokes to some arbitrary value per manual doesn't do jack sh* to true the wheel . You can end up with spokes all tightened properly but the wheel be an oval and side to side mess. I haven't seen an explanation in any spoke-maintenance video on youtube. Only some forums mention that it's an art of itself to get the wheel true + tightened spokes to proper values. Maybe this works on a new wheel. But on old wheels where all the spokes are not the same anymore, there may be rust inside the threads etc. this just won't work. So I say it's complete BS to buy these spoke torque wrenches and tightening all spokes to the same value! I just true the wheel as best as I can (within spec) with cheap spoke wrench and that's it. Maybe tighten it all around a little. But if I would follow this stupid advise of same torque for all the spokes I would end up with oval wheel with death wobble lol

Why do you tighten the value nut to the tip ? They come from factory tighten up to the rim ???