Originally Posted by
Jexbrah
I was curious if it is at all possible to just replace the rims on a wheelset? Is it something that can easily be done yourself if you have no wheel building experience?
And just out of curiosity, how much would something like this cost at a shop (just replacing the rims)
A shop would probably insist on replacing the spokes along with the rims. Reusing spokes is possible (I do it all the time... on wheels I've built for myself) but it's not worth the shop's time to disassemble the wheel and preserve the spokes.
As FB said, this requires some wheel building and truing skills. In fact, swapping rims is pretty easy- producing a round, true, and properly tensioned wheel is what take practice and skill.