Spoke check after the Solang runs

The wheels have taken a beating all month on the Solang side, so I finally sat down with the spoke key instead of putting it off again. Went round both rims tapping every spoke with the shank of a screwdriver and listening. Front was mostly fine, two dull ones near the valve. Rear had five gone soft and one that was properly slack.

Quarter turn at a time, opposite pairs, then round again from the start. For run out I taped a zip tie to the swingarm as a pointer and spun the wheel. Old trick, costs nothing, works. Rear had roughly two millimetres of wobble and I got most of it out. Not perfect, but it will hold until the season ends.

Cleaned the grit out of the nipples while I was in there and wiped down both hubs. Took me the better part of two hours for a job that sounds like ten minutes. Worth it though. The back end feels tight again over the broken stretch above Palchan, and that is where you notice it first.