Originally Posted by
HillRider
Inexpensive machine built wheels are commonly neither very true or properly tensioned. You save money but have to do the final touchup yourself or the shop you bought them from does it for you.
My experience with prebuilt wheels is with two sets from Colorado Cyclist, one pair from Wheelsmith and one set of Shimano WH-R560 wheels. These all came perfectly true, properly tensioned and needed no attention for thousands and thousands of miles. However, none of these were cheap.
I have worked on a couple of sets of inexpensive prebuilt wheels for others and most of them needed some truing and tension adjustment.
+1 for Colorado Cyclist and Wheelsmith.
Originally Posted by
nfmisso
Lower end wheels (machine built) are ready to put on the truing stand for truing, tensioning and stress relieving. They are not ready to put on a bike.
IME whether budget wheels are rode right away or not, they're going to need some human intervention. Might as well take care of everything
before riding.
Brad