How much do you charge to lace up a wheel??
07-01-06, 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Retro Grouch
Maybe 5 minutes. Certainly less than 10. But it doesn't matter because you can't ride on a wheel at that stage. To say that 15 minutes to lace a wheel is typical just doesn't sound right to me. Building up the tension and checking to see that all of the spokes were equal was the most time consuming part.
04-15-16, 10:09 AM
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04-15-16, 12:21 PM
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I'm not surprised at the highball quote. I don't charge that to build a wheel, but the more someone does for me, ie. lacing, the more I charge because I hate being the second man to the job.
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Yup. It's fine if everything goes right but what do you do if you get the wheel almost up to tension and find out that you've run out of spoke threads? You've got time invested but you can't finish the job. What do you do if you discover the spokes adjacent to the valve stem hole aren't parallel? I want to do all of it or none of it.
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