Originally Posted by phidauex
Don't mind us, we're just a bunch of insufferable gearheads. If you ask me where to buy a stem you are as likely to get instructions on forging your own as you are a real answer.
I don't know LA, but I do have a suggestion. Call a few shops and ask if they have a Phil Wood spoke cutting machine. If so, they probably have a good wheel builder as well, since thats the only way they could justify the expense. Here in St. Louis there is only one major shop with a Phil Wood, and one major shop with experienced wheel builders, and they are the same shop. Every place I called asking for custom spokes kept referring me back to that one shop.
peace,
sam
Thanks for the advice Sam. And you're right about being an insufferable gearhead. I have to admit that I am first to suggest that someone run out and buy what they need to service their own cranks and bottom bracket in order to remedy that creak, when they might be just as intimidated by that as I am by wheel building. I guess we all mean well.
DanO