Originally Posted by
gerv
The number of spokes won't help you if you don't keep the wheel true and the spokes evenly tensioned. Probably a good idea to get the wheel trued (do it yourself!) periodically. I do mine a couple of times a year.
I also have 36 spokes on all my wheels. (It's also a good idea to make sure you have high-quality spokes.)
So how do you keep them evenly tensioned gerv? Do you utilise the ping test where the builder pings each spoke to make sure they are the same pitch or do yo utilise an expensive (park) tensioner tool. And...is it possible to have all spokes evenly tensioned and the wheel to be trued at the same time or is there an acceptable margin of error between achieving even tensioning and wheel trueness?