Originally Posted by
Happy Feet
As to a local building the wheelset. One guy quoted me $1000 CAD and I had to supply the hubs. arghh... I suspect they have never built a fat set before.
Well that's pretty steep. My LBS, which is fairly fatbike focused charges 50-100 € for the actual build. So 100-200 € for the wheelset plus components. So with their own hubs and pretty darn expensive race face rims the build would amount to 742 € which translates to 1142cad. But that price does contain the work, hubs and seriously expensive rims (spokes also obviously).
With prices like the quote you got it almost pays to start a new hobby in wheelbuilding