I've found the extra few bucks to get a good wheel builder to build a wheel for you is money well spent. The Handspun wheels are good, don't get me wrong, but the cost to pay a good builder to hand build one is not all that much more. It's been my experience that the cost of ordering one machine built and having a mechanic tweak if for me ends up costing as much as it would to just have a good builder build me one from scratch. Again don't get me wrong the Handspun wheels I've seen are very good, but for just a little more a hand built one is better. My opinion at least. Best, Clyde Canter
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Leslie <leslie.bri...@gmail.com> wrote: > For a rim, I would suggest considering Velocity's A23 rim: > http://www.velocityusa.com/default.asp?contentID=746 > > (I have them in 650b, and really like them, built my first wheelset on > those rims.) > > > Jim Thill, Rich Lesnik, Anthony at Longleaf, Peter White... all would > build you a good wheel set.. not, a GREAT wheel set. I have two > wheelsets that Rich built me before I started building my own, his are > perfect; Peter has a stellar reputation; Anthony is who I got my 650b A23 > rims from; and Jim is just an all-round great fella, can-do whatever it is > you need.. > > But you work at a shop now, right? Just thinkin'.... Build your own > wheelset? I queued up numerous videos on youtube, read Jobst Brandt's > book, used my HoH wheels as a guide, and had at it... they're functioning > very well for me. I picked the hubs I wanted, picked the rims, picked the > spokes, and did it myself... learned a lot, and can now tune up my > family's wheels as needed now.... > > > -- > 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?hl=en-US. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- 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?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
