Originally Posted by
davidad
I taught a school teacher with no mechanical skills how to build a wheel. She has done three and they have come out well trued and tensioned. I have put over 30k miles on a rear one with little retruing over the past few years.
As I said --
But for a newbie without good instincts or a decent teacher ...
Apparently this involved one or both of the conditions. I teach wheel building, and find that there's a large spread in how easily students learn this, and that's with a preselected group who already know some bike repair. I said it was fairly easy to learn, but not equally easy for everybody.