Singletracks Mountain Bike News, Reviews, MTB Trails and Community › Protected: Forums › Mountain Bike Forum › Spoke Tension › Re: Spoke Tension
March 8, 2011 at 17:11
#96159
As a wheel builder you probably know most the tricks. Tension is about the same as a road wheel but if you’re tensioning by ear the shorter spokes will sound different than the road wheels.
One trick I’ve used is putting a drop of boiled linseed oil on each nipple from the rim cavity side, it’ll harden in about a week & prevent loosening. You can still break it free when truing.