if you ride your bike like an elderly person your rim may never need inspection or adjustment. If you ride your bike to the extreme, your rim will require adjustments via the spokes. Thats' the total reason why any bicyclist has replaced a rim and it's severity can go all the up to a "tacoed" rim. And if you understand how a wheel is made (by experience), you can fix a bent rim just by the tensioning of spokes. So if you claim a properly built rim never needs truing, there are a lotta poor wheel manufacturers building rims. Personally I don't know anyone who gets through a season of intense biking who doesn't have to adjust their spokes or go all the way to the measure of replacing a wheel. So it's better to do it yourself and be good at it, or riding a bike aint gonna be that much fun. The dude who you copied the quote from is wrong. If he said that to me I'ld have to second analyze any imformation coming from that source.