Rebuilding a spoke wheel - truing stand

I'm considering rebuilding the front spoke wheel on my '88 KZ305. I found a great article on this from web bike world, but there's one piece I need more info on.

I need some ideas about how to rig up a truing stand. I can't weld so I imagine I would need to set up some means of holding the axle on a workshop table or something. The article, which is otherwise quite thorough, says almost nothing about this.

Does anyone have any pictures of their own truing stands they could share?

Thanks!

Topper wrote:

I'm considering rebuilding the front spoke wheel on my '88 KZ305. I found a great article on this from web bike world, but there's one piece I need more info on.

I need some ideas about how to rig up a truing stand. I can't weld so I imagine I would need to set up some means of holding the axle on a workshop table or something. The article, which is otherwise quite thorough, says almost nothing about this.

Does anyone have any pictures of their own truing stands they could share?

Thanks!

Here's one, courtesy of Kidkawie, in the following earlier thread:

Click here > kzrider.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&...d=5&id=402636#404166

Good Fortune!

[Click on image to enlarge view.]

For reference, the commercial store-bought version.

I just re-laced and trued these wheels for a guy - 63 Honda C200... they were really small hubs so I was able to get away with my bicycle wheel stand.

I designed this combo truing/balancing stand to do larger wheels - I already have the steel... just have to get it welded... total investment = $9

Instead of steel tubing you could use 2x2 wood... you really don't have to pin down the axles unless your really wailing on the nipples... but at that point you should back off because they are probably "too" tight.

You could always just mount the rim to the forks where it belongs,and true it there.

check this link out,
xlforum.net/vbportal/forums/showthread.p...omemade+tools&page=2
there is a really nice homemade stand or two in this thread, and i mean NICE... I'll be using this one when the time comes

Sandy wrote:

You could always just mount the rim to the forks where it belongs,and true it there.

THAT is an interesting idea! I have an extra set of forks and a triple clamp. Figure out way to clamp them to my work bench (an old dresser) and there we go.

I don't have a great work space that will fit the whole bike so without an extra set of forks, I'll need some sort of stand. Some of these examples look pretty easy to build. Thanks for the examples.

i used my weight bench lol just clamped the wheel and axle to that.. set up my indicator and went at it

I've never had the opportunitity to lace wheels on a road bike, but I have done several dirtbike wheels, and I don't bother with a truing stand. I use the wheel's axle clamped verticle in a vice, slide the wheel over the axle and use a dial indicator. Works fine for me. Able to true wheels within .015" axial and radial runout

I hadn't thought about doing it vertically. That's an interesting idea.