This is a re-laced wheel for a 2014 cannondale caadx frame. I already know im pushing the clearance running 35c tires, but this looks uneven. Drive side clearance is about 7-8mm and non drive side is about 3mm. Should I ask them to re-dish this?
by bobby1ite
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Well of course, this wasn’t done right. Leave it to them
Bring the whole bike this time
Does that frame require the 6mm offset? If so they did great work without all of the required info.
As i understand this is a QR frame. On non throughaxle frames i often get these slight offsets simply by tolerance in the dropouts. The fact that most hubs have threaded axles which work into the paint of the frame alone can already create that amount of tolerance. The axle moving back and forth in the dropout by a few tenth of a millimeter will create several millimeters of play for the tire between the chainstays at the BB. It does not necessarily mean that the wheel has been dished wrong. i’d just loosen the quick release, push the wheel over a bit at the tire and retighten the QR skewers.
If you already tried that and this is the result, then you are right and this is probably a wrongly dished wheel or your frame is highly uneven (unlikely).
Is that a Cannondale?
Rear may need their 6mm offset dishing
My go to here is “have you put the wheel properly in the dropouts”.
Seems dumb but it is common.
Besides that, that the bike to the shop, they can’t guess what dish your frame needs, some frames have different dish requirements.
A couple other commenters mentioned this, but before you go back to the shop, if the bike is a quick release, make sure the wheel is fully centered in the dropouts. If you have ensured that, then yes take the whole bike to the shop. But to me, the wheel looks like it’s cockeyed in the frame, not shifted to one side all the way around.
I dont believe Cannondale was running the AI offset back in 2014. It debuted on the f-si mountain bike in 2015 I think, and only made it to road/gravel/cross a year or two later.
I’m not 100% certain but there’s a fair chance its a pretty innocent mistake, a lot of bike brands have a symmetrical wheelbase, cannondale makes some of their models with the wheelbase a bit off center, if they didn’t know (or just forgot, happens to the best off us) they wouldn’t of thought about it whilst the building the wheel, takes five/ten minutes to fix with a truing stand, if they’re a good shop they’ll do it for free because they didn’t get it right in the first time around.
Yes. And I agree take the whole bike to them.
Have them check the true with the tire on and inflated to whatever pressure you ride. Certain tires and rim combinations will lose dish when the tire gets inflated because it compresses the rim. They always move to the non drive side because that’s typically half the tension.
Before you do anything else, flip the wheel around backwards. If it’s in the same position then yea, it’s the frame. If it’s moved, the wheel needs redishing