Originally Posted by
aaronmichael
Thanks for the advice. I want to try to stay away from a really cheap wheelset. I do a moderate amount of riding on some rough areas and want a good wheel, at least on the back. I would use it as an excuse to buy a new bike if I wasn't a extrememly poor college student - haha.
The best way to get a budget but reliable wheel is to get one of the prebuilt ones and have a decent wheel guy properly tension it. The quality of the build, particularly the tensioning is way more important than the parts that go into it.