Rear wheel slight bend

I have a very slight bend in my rim one spoke is loose.I was thinking of cutting a block of wood to fit from the hub to the rim then driving a wood wedge to push it back into place,or maybe a little farther and let it spring back.I would remove one spoke either side to give it a chance.What does everyone think? Or should I be unlacing it and purchasing a new rim.

Get it checked by a wheel builder first and follow the advice.
Any home remedy may result in fracture elsewhere in the rim or stressed spokes which you may not notice and result in the bike being thrown down the road when it decides to give up the ghost. Let the manufacturers test your protective rider wear not yourself!
I assume you mean buckle or is the rim distorted?

How slight is the slight bend and did it come from an impact?
All wheels have slight bends in them however the ideal is to keep the rim within around .015 or less of concentric.
I checked the new professionally laced rims on my 650SS when I first got it. The bike vibrated horribly. I found that both rims were out of round a long way, nearly an eight of an inch total runout. This was pretty easy to correct with two dial guages and a spoke wrench. I have a spoke torque wrench for the job now, that makes it easier yet.
But if the bend is due to an impact, depending on how sharp it is, it may need more help or could even be trash.

Glen

If in doubt, throw it out. Applies to food left in the refrigerator and bent rims.

It's a job for the pros. Find one familiar with the extreme offset of Norton wheels.

It long accepted ancient history to ride a long time on bend and/or mostly repaired steel and Alloy rims. If the bend is a dip in the roundness its take a good bit of that to even be noitice by feel or tire wear and the least important to get right in lacing but the flatness does matter. As we don't know the amount being asked about can only give general and cautious advice her. Can seach or youtube rim repair and sense of trash or not but Ifn't was me I'd sure try to DIY by maybe byre-tweaking the good spokes to best direct-focus the wood wedgie re-bending forces. If wood block don't do it d/t crushing its ends or the hub alloy might consider all tread spreader bolt between conform fitting presser blooks. I'd do this cold though might be good to heat the outter limits of bend to expand it there and help pop out the vally tension sort like hail ding are done.

Hehe likely the main hassle deal breaker is how many spokes must be moved out the way to thread another in.

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I resolved the rim Question I got a new one and stainless spokes to match.Just for interest I did find out how to take out a slight bend but its a lot of work and a new one is 175.00 soa new one is the answer.Now the restoration shop at a local museum said that they cut a disk that fits on the inside of the rim and force the bend back.