{"id":20,"date":"2008-04-13T21:50:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T01:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2008-04-13T21:51:43","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T01:51:43","slug":"park-tool-sw-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/13\/park-tool-sw-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Tool SW-7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/bike_stuff\/IMG_1091.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/73108-2\/IMG_1091.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 alt=\"A Park Tool SW-7 Triple Spoke Wrench I picked up so I could try straightening my front wheel.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/12\/20-miles-in-the-rain\/\">bending my front wheel a bit yesterday while riding<\/a> I headed with Danielle over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rei.com\">REI<\/a> to grab a spoke wrench. I ended up getting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parktool.com\/products\/detail.asp?cat=16&#038;item=SW-7\">Park Tool SW-7<\/a> for $9.99, and after getting home I read up a bit more on wheel truing and gave it a go.<\/p>\n<p>Not having a truing stand I tried using a chopstock, some non-slip padding, and a small bar clamp in place of a feeler, but it didn&#8217;t work out very well. I was able to get the wheel to wobble less, but it still didn&#8217;t seem perfect to me. Also, I worry that I&#8217;m screwing up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheldonbrown.com\/gloss_da-o.html#dish\">dish<\/a> of the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>I think that tomorrow after work I&#8217;m going to try and go by <a href=\"http:\/\/fraserbicycle.com\/\">Fraser Bicycle &#038; Fitness<\/a> and see if they can sort out the wheel for me. I really hope I don&#8217;t have to buy a new one. I imagine I won&#8217;t, as the wobble isn&#8217;t too bad. Hopefully it won&#8217;t cost too much for them to fix it, either&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After bending my front wheel a bit yesterday while riding I headed with Danielle over to REI to grab a spoke wrench. I ended up&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/13\/park-tool-sw-7\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Park Tool SW-7<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}