Piling on in favor of your building your own wheel. I bought Jobst Brandt's book and read it cover to cover twice before building my own wheel. The first half of the book is theory, the second is practice. You could easily skip straight to the instructions, and if you follow them carefully you will end up with a properly laced and tensioned wheel. Only drawback is that Jobst doesn't reply to email anymore...
I've now built six wheels: 2 dyno, 3 Rohloff, and one fixed, so nothing with extreme dish. I have beaten the first four of those to hell off road, touring, and off-road touring. It's been a great experience. I did buy a used truing stand, dishing tool, tensiometer and spoke wrenches from a mechanic before I started, but I could just as easily do it in the frame of a bike with a guitar pick. Anything you build carefully is likely to be better than a factory-built wheel that hasn't been touched up by a professional, which people buy and ride all the time. You won't regret it! Daniel M Berkeley, CA -- 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/86044e39-fcd6-4a0f-9b5d-158cb2c8b722o%40googlegroups.com.
