My wheel truing got way faster after I switched from a spoke wrench to a dedicated truing stand from a garage sale

I snagged an old Minoura stand for $15 at a flea market near Cleveland and my first wheel took 40 minutes instead of the usual hour and a half with the bike flipped upside down, has anyone else found that a cheap stand changes their workflow that much?

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gray_schmidt818d ago

Dang that's a killer deal for a Minoura stand! I just gotta point out something real quick though - you said your first wheel took 40 minutes instead of the usual hour and a half but then smith.jordan talked about finding a Park Tool stand for twenty bucks. Not trying to be that guy but those two things don't really match up unless you edited your post. Anyway yeah a cheap stand makes a huge difference cause you can actually see what you're doing without contorting your body. I picked up an old Spin Doctor stand for like $10 at a yard sale and it cut my truing time by more than half. It's wild how much easier the whole process gets when you don't have to fight with flipping the bike around every five seconds.

smith.jordan18d ago

Oh man that garage sale find is amazing! I was using the fork mount method for way too long, balancing my bike on a milk crate with a flashlight taped to the handlebars. Then I found an old Park Tool stand at a pawn shop for like twenty bucks and it was night and day. The thing that really got me was how much easier it was to actually see the wobbles without having to crouch down or tilt my head weird. Plus I could actually reach both sides of the wheel without flipping the whole bike over. That Minoura stand sounds like a solid score for fifteen bucks, those things are built like tanks.