Originally Posted by Yoshi

I love how people think that wheel building is like total magic. "I can really feel how so-and-so preloaded the tension on these spokes! You just can't get the proper application of spoke-prep in NYC!"

I'm not trying to knock you, I just think it's silly that people have such strong opinions about how no shop in NYC is good enough to build wheels. I taught myself how to built my own wheels and haven't noticed any difference between my wheels and wheels built at various shops.