For those of you in Oregon or Vancouver WA, I stumbled onto a wheel shop called "Sugar wheel works" located in N Portland off of Williams just past the rose quarter. I broke a spoke and nobody seems to stock CX ray Sapim spokes. Velo cult off of sandy Blvd knew that Jude (owner of Sugar) stocked them and recommended i go there. I have NEVER heard of sugar wheel works and didn't know what to expect, but i needed a spoke. So I went and WOW is all I can say. Jude took 30 minutes talking to me, educating me and really taking her time to help me. We are going to sit down at the end of this week and come up with some custom wheel ideas. My wheel knowledge was/is minimal and what I thought was right definitely was not. She helped me break through some of my own barriers (wanting certain wheelsets for reasons that were not beneficial or true for that matter). I'm going to do a demo program with her where she is going to set me up with several different sets over the course of 3 or 4 months so i can experience first hand the difference between wheel set up's i.e better hubs, rim weights, spoke count, hub weight...etc.

If you need any wheel work done I HIGHLY recommend giving her a visit!

http://www.sugarwheelworks.com/about-sugar/