Originally Posted by
sp00ki
I'm going to buy a truing stand soon.
I just built a wheel using my friend's park tools ts-2.
i actually haven't used any other stands.
I'm seeing it priced at ~$180 (after shipping). Should i pick it up?
I've built and trued many wheels using no more than a table for a reference and a flipped-over bike for a stand. But then, I
learned to build and true on a TS-2. (Hey! Poetry!) It's not overkill if you're going to be building a few wheels for yourself, but I've had just as mus success truing the wheel on the bike with a clothespin for reference.
This is overkill:
http://www.biketoolsetc.com/index.cg...&item_id=VR-74