Steven, Go for it!
I have built, rebuilt and trued up and redished many a wheel. Built my first wheelset using Wilderness Trail Bikes Classic Grease Guard freewheel hubs with Mavic 217, 26" rims for my 1991 Bridgestone MB-0(Zip) frameset. I worked at a bike shop at the time so I had The Bicycle Wheel book, Wheelsmith spoke calculator, Phil Wood spoke cutter, truing stand, dishing took and wrenches available along with the shop manager, who was a well accomplished wheel builder. I built the wheel at the shop when I had time. Since that time I have built several wheels along with several rim and one hub transplant. I am meticulous. I got my own Park truing stand, dishing tool, ended up purchasing the Wheelsmith spoke calculator set and Phil Wood spoke cutter, that I sold. Also bought The Bicycle Wheel book and read it from cover to cover. All the wheels that I have built seem to hold up. The rim transplant ones have ended up on bikes I sold. They seem to be working well. The hub transplant was a 36 hole SunTour Superbe Pro freewheel that replaced a Suntour XC-Comp cassette hub on a Araya VX-400(?) . The dimensions on the hubs were close and I spaced the freewheel hub to 132.5mm OLD to offer versatility, Currently I have one wheelset to build and two others I plan on replacing the alloy nipples with brass. Will probably get around to that this fall or winter. Hope this helps. Reginald Alexis -- 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/599e5aa6-72ca-4e3b-934a-8ef53810e3a0o%40googlegroups.com.
