On May 7, 8:30=A0am, landotter <landot...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 6, 4:39 pm, "joseph.santanie...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On May 6, 8:46 pm, landotter <landot...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > On May 6, 7:22 am, jim <skijor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > Hi all, wondering if anyone out there has had experience with
their
> > > > custom wheels, =A0good or bad?
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> > > If they're building them as Sheldon recommends and checking
tension--
> > > I'd trust them for sure. The prices are extremely fair, $40 labor
per
> > > wheel and $1 each per butted spoke. Mind, if you need a very normal
> > > combination of rim/spoke/hub--it's more economical and fun to just
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> > > a wheelinabox and tune them using Sheldon Brown's
instructions--takes
> > > all of fifteen minutes, and they'll be as durable as something hand
> > > built.
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> > It's even more fun to build them from his instructions!
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> I don't know if it's fun in the classical sense, but it can be
> meditative after you've gotten into it. Tuning a wheelinabox set,
> riding them hard and discovering that you've managed to add stability
> and value to a commodity is sort of the first little baby step until
> you one day arrive at the point where you really need a hub and rim
> combo that's unusual enough to require a custom build.
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> I got to see a gal riding on one of my first sets of custom wheels in
> the park this weekend, a trash heap huge orange German woman's bike
> with 60cm bars and MA3s on a Sachs Torpedo hub with a premium
> assortment of stainless recycled spokes from domestic and European
> sponsors (consider the project, people). She'd ridden the snot out of
> the thing the last year and had just been to the LBS to put a fine $40
> top-of-the-line Electra basket on it, as she re****ted, "it had been
> utterly bullet proof." Good wheels are good wheels, no matter what ya
> bolt them to. Good wheels can make orange trash heap bikes pretty fun
> bikes, especially if you add gold KMC chains. *bling*- Hide quoted text
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Yeah, my current rear wheel is a 36hole Deore hub on a 700C CR-18.
I'm looking for something similar and none of the nashbar/performance/
jenson offer those sorts of wheels. I have 5 years on this wheel, and
the side of the rim is looking kind of grim after all the braking...I
guess Performance has a decent 32 hole wheel with the CD coating. I
could practice up on that one...
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