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I've just received a pair of new wheels for my road bike bike & noticed that the rear wheel spokes creak. Is it simply a case of tightening them to stop the creaking.
The drive side is much tighter than the non-drive side.
The readings I'm getting on a Park spoke tension meter are Drive Side - consistently around 20, non drive side ranging between 5 & 10.
I could send them back to get sorted but dont particularly want the the hassle of losing them for another week whilst they get sorted
They shouldn't creak, that's a sign of uneven spoke tension. I'd drop them into a reliable LBS and ask them to even out the tension.
Pop up to Lowestoft I'll do them for you while you wait dude and kettles always on.
Thanks fellas.
@Cannondaleking Thanks for the offer, just a few too many miles away.
The parallel spoked fatbike wheels you made for me a year ago now are still going strong & turning heads 🙂
Good too hear it's been 20 years this July since I started building wheels were has the time gone 😐
If you wanna drop them road wheels in the post your more than welcome too dude
If these are actually "new" wheels then why not send them back to the retailer?
The seller is saying not to rule out a faulty bearing so wants them back. Bit of a faff sending them back thats all but at least it'll be sorted without cost
What spokes are they? The park numbers don't mean much unless you go back to actual spoke tension. Having said that, I winced when I read 5-10 on the non drive side. That's a huge variance and depending on the actual spoke, sounds under tensioned.
They are the Sapim CX-Ray 0.9×2.25 spokes. I did think 5-10 was a bit of a variance. To be honest I couldn't find my conversion sheet to convert that to kfg
The sheets is also available online but off the top of my head, that sounds low. Having said that, it's so very different from the drive side that if the dish is correct, it sounds like a poorly designed hub.
Plug the tension values into the Parktool WTA website and see what it says exactly but it looks a pretty large variance in 5 to 10
Would you expect the values on the drive & non-dive side to be similar. The wheel definitely isn't equal in the frame...not far out but enough you can see.
No, drive side is pretty much always tighter, but a well designed hub will minimise the difference. Plug the numbers into the park wheel tool app and see what values you get. Non drive side shouldn't be much less than 70% of the drive side.
Will do, thanks fella