If you have the desire and time necessary to familiarize yourself with the process, determine the correct parts, materials and a quality nipple wrench. Go for it. Missteps will be taken as lessons rather than waste. If not that committed, it can be a frustration.
I built many of my own wheels and careful reading of a book (+1 on Eric's vote for Brandt's book) or viewing YouTube for instruction. Every set of wheels reiterated the value of taking care in the selection of parts, preparations and process of assembly. It took a a wheel or two to nail it top to bottom. Never unrecoverable just things that affected how long before touch ups were needed. Overall, very rewarding, if you are realistic about the effort and time the first one will take. Not everyone's thing. In the years since not being at the bench it's harder to keep up with all the parts and the reports on their use. An active wheel builder has experience-based insight regarding that industry side, like how flat and round are certain brands' rims before lacing up. When I started my parts pile for my new bike I had to make the grown up decision that my bandwidth was full and to have a builder recommend rims and spokes to go with my hub choices, weight, bike format and intended load use. Having the ability to say "been there, done that", it was money well spent in my situation. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Monday, October 19, 2020 at 11:25:58 AM UTC-4 Steven Seelig wrote: > So with COVID and all, I've decided that now is the time to do stuff that > I haven't ever done before. Learning to speak French is perhaps a bridge > too far - not so good at language. But it seems reasonable to think that I > can at least build a front wheel with a Dyno hub to put on the Sam I ride > in the means streets of DC and on some gravel. > > I have a truing stand but not a dishing tool. I would say I am a > competent wrencher. Of course anyone who has built up a wheel did it once > for the first time. Is this something I should take on? What are the odds > for success? Will I quit in frustration? > > Points of view encouraged. > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/4b4f04e3-d87e-4c6b-8146-351d12be3177n%40googlegroups.com.
