A motorcycle, like any other transport, requires timely maintenance and scheduled repairs - only if the motorcycle is properly looked after, it regularly serves its owner for many years. Often on a motorcycle, you have to adjust the position of the spokes in the wheels by tightening them, and any motorcyclist can handle this task without resorting to the services of professional mechanics.
Instructions
Step 1
To get started, twist the spoke nipples in sequence to evenly tighten them by turning the nipples 180 degrees without force. Then repeat the tightening of the spokes by turning the nipples over and over against slight resistance.
Step 2
After that, fix the wheel axle in a special vice on any flat surface that should be parallel to the plane of the wheel and begin to straighten those spokes that are most deformed (for example, form a figure eight).
Step 3
Fix the caliper on the edge of the working surface with a clamp parallel to the wheel axis, so that the depth gauge of the caliper rests against the side of the rim. Number and mark the knitting needles to be tightened with duct tape.
Step 4
Place the tip of the depth gauge against the rim opposite the first spoke and write down the resulting size, and then measure this distance opposite each spoke after one revolution of the wheel. Measure the range of values between the maximum and minimum size - if the figure exceeds 1.5 mm, then the wheel needs to be straightened.
Step 5
Enter numbers with a graph in Excel in order to enter new indicators in the future and check in which direction the range changes. Enter the desired number of the range between the values, process the file and determine which spokes by numbers you need to tighten in order to achieve the best result and fix the wheel.
Step 6
Then tighten the nipple of each spoke that does not fall into the "corridor" of values, assuming that 1 mm of the difference is equal to a turn of 90 degrees. Re-tighten all knitting needles that did not fit into the “corridor” after the second recount. Re-measure the spoke-to-rim distance as described above, and then check the graph.
Step 7
Tighten the knitting needles until the number on the graph exceeds 1.5 mm. If you are correcting not the "eight", but the "egg", strengthen the caliper not parallel, but perpendicular to the axis of the wheel.
