Another way to view it, FWIW,

You have the option of a building premier wheel, certainly, but an adequate one will do .

if you damage it a bike shop will provide a similar reasonable wheel,

if damaged , people still end up buying a lesser wheel, anyhow,

because shops in high season are often too busy to build you a new wheel on the spot..

winter is another story, but thats not the season people are out on the road, by the hundreds.

all else you may be shipping the valuable parts of your 1st wheel home ,

riding on something that is a substitute.


but wheel building is a good skill, to do patch up spoke replacements, etc. in the field...