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[John L]

Starfield - It may be just the pics. as reproduced on my screen, but the adjustment of your brake link rod doesn't look quite correct. When you have the wheel removed again, make sure that the upper and lower levers are parallel to each other, as near as you can get them with the brake applied. HTH

[stinkwheel]

As above, re-dishing wheels on bicycles is a very common thing to do and providing you use a methodical approach, shouldn't affect the tension and true to any great degree.



As I mentioned though, don't be too worried about centralisation. The main thing is that the front and rear wheels are paralell with one another and the bike itself, they don't necessarily need to be absolutely perfectly aligned to work properly. If the forks were twisted in the yokes making the wheel point off to one side, this would be more of a problem. The old fashioned way of aligning them is to loosen the bottom yoke and fork clamp then stand astride the bike and dunt the front wheel square into a wall a few times, then nip them up again.