{"id":599,"date":"2008-11-07T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/07\/review-park-ts-2-truing-stand\/"},"modified":"2008-11-07T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T14:30:00","slug":"review-park-ts-2-truing-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/07\/review-park-ts-2-truing-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Park TS-2 Truing Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I probably don’t need to tell you about this truing stand, the TS-2 is the benchmark by which all other stands are compared. It can be seen in any self respecting bike shop, and with good reason.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>When I first started cross’ racing again in 2005 I was given a crazy lightweight Velomax Ascent rear wheel from a friend. Well needless to say I knocked that shit way out of true… every single weekend. So I would stop in the local shop<\/a> and borrow theirs, but, well, I hated doing that. I always felt like I was bothering them.<\/p>\n

I went in to Vecchios<\/a> in the winter and the usually busy, slightly angry Pete Chissolm was extra chatty, maybe because it was snowing and February. Now in case you don’t know this yet, I am a nerd. This is relavent, I am not just bragging… Years before I had seen a posting on a news group for a used truing stand from Pete, he never emailed back. I brought this up, he walked in the back, grabbed the stand and base and sold it to me for $20.<\/p>\n

He has been building wheels for a while, he had been using linseed oil, which gets dried and caked on. I took it to the car wash, pressure washed it, then used a razor blade clamped in some channel locks and scraped that crap off. I purchased some rebuild parts from Park and man I have a nice stand now. It was missing the attachment parts for the base. but I made one with a dremel out of some aluminium stock and some bolts.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>If you need to true a lot of wheels, or find one of these stands for a deal, this amazing truing stand will last you forever, Fits any wheel, self centering and can be rebuilt every 10 years with readily available parts from Park Tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I probably don’t need to tell you about this truing stand, the TS-2 is the benchmark by which all other stands are compared. It…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}