Originally Posted by
trunolimit
My wheels must suck than because it's gotten to the point where I ha e to ride with my rear breaks disengaged.
There's a midpoint between wheels that aren't right for you and wheels that are performance oriented, cost a ton and aren't what you need. I'd say you need a good mid-range set. Depending on the bike, odds are it may have come with a wheelset that isn't strong (called stiff in wheel context) for you. Having said that, you can easily get a good set of wheels that will do what you want for $500 or less.
Don't know what kind of bike you have, but I've been amazed how poor some of the OEM wheelsets are -- even on $1,200 bikes. Even if you were good at truing your wheels, at a certain point, it would get upsetting because you shouldn't
have to be truing them that much.