>>1866257I learned using an out-of-round, dished, and otherwise fubared 700c that I managed to get straightish enough to ride another 1000km before shedding spokes.
>>1866257>You also might carry a key on tour, even if not for yourself, to help others. Wheel badly out of true is probably the major serious mechanical that faces cyclists on ill-equipped bikes (most). The problem is you won't be saving them because they've got a spoke key. Or it will never happen... either way. My crystal 8-ball is never wrong
But you might... becuase you're not a Zen Wheel Truing Master, like myself. If I see a dished wheel it is someone else's problem.
Unless... you wish to learn the way of the Master.... in that case, the student is ready: place your hands on someone else's untrue wheel and say the Wheel Truing Prayer:
I Hope and Pray
To fix this wheel today
And not have it take
10 hours, or embarass
myself by causing further damage
or even not realize, after many hours
there was no way of ever fixing it
And there is no way to hide
from the bicycle gods and
you will be scorned
and kicked down
to the rank
of plebe.
And you will say, why? Why did I not listen to the Master?
Many such cases.