Quote Originally Posted by slightwinner View Post
DO NOT JUST TIGHTEN YOUR LOOSE SPOKES! Your rim needs to be true! If u tighten only one side and wonder why your hopping up and down on your seat then look at your rim! You either need to buy the right tools to do it or just take it to a shop! It's not that easy just banging a wrench on them and tightening them till they ring! You will destroy your rim and possibly break spokes! Do not get back on here and start complaining that your dong fang is junk because you decided to listen to someone that obviously has no clue really what they are doing! When I first read about someone saying tighten your spokes I about died thinking of all the clowns gonna be mad when they can't ride!
I have been doing wheel work since I was a kid, about 30 years. I had no other choice but to repair my own wheels. There's no problems with ringing spokes and tightening them. It takes more than snugging up a few spokes to pull a rim out of true. There is more than one way to do things. If my way is wrong, then 90% of all spoke wheels are at risk of blowing up and killing everyone around. The dealerships and shops use the same technique as I to tighten a few loose spokes. Indepedent shops are where I learned how to repair wheels. These are China bikes. Most of them are not true from the factory. It was uncalled for the way you responded. We try to keep it civil around here.