Originally Posted by
rpenmanparker
Although there is good agreement among us that it makes no difference, still it makes sense to build your wheels at or near the mid-point of your most common riding temperatures. Or maybe what I really mean is that I'm really lucky that my situation just seems to work out that way. My house is say, low '70s. I don't ride colder than mid-50s or hotter than mid-90s and usually the limits are mid-60s and mid-80s. So my build temperature is just about centered between my riding extremes. You can't ask for better than that. Not that it matters...just sayin'.
No it doesn't. If you live in Canada and ride in the winter time, who wants to build their wheels in a freezing room...lol.
Ok to run slighltly higher than mid pt tensions if you know you are going to ride the bike at temps near freezing but again, amount of thermal expansion is miniscule for the temperature differential that humans can survive in. Not the same as a 200 deg F difference as with an internal combustion engine for example.