As a non-professional wheelbuilder who has nevertheless rode successfully on many of my own wheels (only one set of 650B wheels though), I would say no. There's nothing special other than the spoke lengths that are nominally halfway between 26" and 700c spoke lengths. :)
The lower spoke tension talk you may have heard of is possibly from one or two 650B rim models, but there is nothing inherent in a 650B build that necessitates special tension consideration that is different from a 26" or 700c build. AFAIK, the rims that sparked said low-tension observations had been redesigned/strengthened to be "normal", meaning they will hold up with spoke tensions in the 100 kgf range. On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 9:07:00 PM UTC-7, lungimsam wrote: > > So, if an LBS has done 700c and 26" wheels, but never 650b...is there > anything they need to know, or just build them like any other wheel? > > Anything special to 650b wheelbuilding? > > Only thing I have heard is spoke tension is sometimes lower on 650b rims, > depending on the rim model/manufacturer. > > Thanks for any info. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
