Originally Posted by
Sixty Fiver
Just serviced a set of factory wheels with 1300km on them with no pre-service that were suffering from tension issues and were out by as much as 45/1000 on the front... the rear tensions were way off.
These were on a $1000.00 bike.
Besides all this I am now building frames and every bike that rolls out of our shop has hand built wheels and we aim for a build tolerance of 1/1000... they also come on hand built hubs that are guaranteed forever.
I.e.
good hand-built wheels are better than most mid to high end machine built wheels.