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Feedback Sports Truing Station One Color One Size – Features

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Feedback Sports Truing Station One Color One Size – Reviews

I’ve owned this stand for something short of 7 years, though mine is branded “Ultimate” (‘Ultimate Bike Support’ was the small Colorado-based company that closed its doors when the owner retired, and turned its products over to ‘Feedback Sports,’ another small Colorado company).

A bit of background: I began building and maintaining my wheels since for something more than 10 years, and for a while I was using a fairly inexpensive Spin Doctor stand from Performance Bike (a rebadged Minoura). A little flexy, used some plastic parts where it shouldn’t have, but all-in-all a decent stand. The wheel centering feature wasn’t reliable, so I relied on the proven “flip-flop method” to ensure the rim was centered between the axle locknuts. Despite the fact it had left and right feelers, truing and building sessions were typically one-sided operations.

I finally decided I wanted to upgrade to something beefier and self-centering, so I spent some money on the Park Tool Professional Wheel Truing Stand (link to TS-2.2 which has been updated to accept 29″ wheels with tires mounted). Extremely uncompromised, beefy, shop-quality stand, but no weighted base (by no means a deal killer) and to my disappointment, the “self centering” feature of this stand was an approximation, not a mechanical certainty, and that caused me to quickly return it for a refund — I’d be right back doing 1-sided flip-flop sessions as I had been with the Minoura.

Short of shelling out serious cash ($400+) for Park’s true self-centering and gorgeous TS-3, I figured I was stuck doing the flip-flop (or using a dishing guage). So why not try a stand that didn’t pretend, accommodated 29-inch rubber (mounted & inflated), and cost nearly a third of what I’d just paid for the TS-2? I picked up an Ultimate.

Despite the positive reviews I’d read up to that point, I was a tiny bit skeptical of the single-sided design’s ability to support my wheels without sagging. I’ve got to tell you, I’ve been using the one-armed Ultimate for over a year, and I’ve been completely satisfied with it the whole time.

The true test has got to be this: over 8 pounds of wheel, consisting of a Rohloff Speehub laced to a 700c Mavic touring rim, and a 600g+ 29″ Nanoraptor tire mounted and inflated. The stand is perfectly stable in all directions (thanks I guess to the heavy cast iron base — the base alone weighs over 6 pounds).

That I can quickly true up a wheel this size without removing the tire is nice. And while, if I force it, I can cause a few millimeters of side-to-side flex where the indicator meets the rim’s sidewall, it all holds perfectly steady under normal use and doesn’t show any slop. My builds are uncompromised. I really can’t find any fault to complain about.

It can hold 20mm thru-axles with no problem when using Problem Solvers 20mm Hub Adaptor for Truing Stands and a rear wheel skewer.

The one-armed design is actually somewhat freeing, giving me unobstructed access to the “working side” of the wheel. Storage space is minimal (I used to re-box the Minoura to tuck it away; the Park would have been problematic because it comes with no base so must be mounted to a sheet of plywood, at minimum — unless it’s bolted to your work bench).

I use a Park Tool WAG-4 Professional Wheel Alignment Gauge dishing guage, which allows me to check dish without removing the wheel from the Ultimate stand, making my truing sessions even quicker.

The feeler gauges are plastic with spring-loaded metal tips. They lack mechanical precision that steel feelers mounted to threaded rod would have, but that has no impact in actual use. Each “click” of the adjustment wheel extends the feeler in 0.1mm increments, which is precise enough to feel out the seam in some rims, or the label applied to others. And the feelers slide the full length of the arm, meaning they can be used to check trueness on disc brake rotors, as well!

If you’re an occasional wheel builder who does not need a truing stand set up on the workbench 24/7, the Ultimate / Feedback Truing Station is a very good way to go about it.

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