Buy wheels or Build wheels?

[mudmucker]

I listened to alot of the posts here... Indy, Kathi. Deb, you were the one to recommend Roger's wheelbuilding book and it helped obviously with building the tools. Not to mention, watching you build your wheel last April and relating methodology was helpful. Although that was around 9 months ago I remembered most of it. The manuals were great for refreshing myself with some of the details.

Lookin' for that frameset now.

Don't know if my bike will become snooty just yet. As I said, we'll see what happens with the first coupla hundred miles.

[DebW]

If it takes a bit of retruing after the first 100 miles or so, don't think that your build was less than good. The pros try to avoid that so people aren't bringing their wheels back and complaining. But if it's YOUR wheel, then YOU can retrue it wheneve it needs it. Spokes will seat on the first ride (you may hear some pinging noises) and any small amount of spoke twist will come out. All perfectly normal.

[smilingcat]

Congratulation and OMG build your own stand too.

I'm sure your wheel wills stay true. Enjoy your ride and nothing snooty about hand built wheels.

smilingcat

[KnottedYet]

Oooh, I wanna learn how to do that! That is so cool!

And you even built your own stand!

Wow!

[RoadRaven]

Well, have shown this impressive feat to the lads in the house and we are all well impressed.
In our opinion building a good wheel is much more difficult than building the frame.
Thank you for all the pix, the photos of the true-ing stand have sparked a desire in the house to build some of our own wheels.
Well done you

[mudmucker]

Thanks you guys.

I've wanted to build a bike, and as I said before now I want to find a frame and build it. But smilingcat, you are partial inspiration. Those bikes you built last year are the cat's meow. Pun intended.

My mother always used to use that saying.

[Popoki_Nui]

GREAT job! That is really impressive.