I wasn't really 'into' cycling until my freshman year at Ohio State. One of my three roommates was an avid cyclist, and so were several others in my predominately upperclassmen Engineering dorm (complete with IBM computer card punch machine)... My roommate Jim rode a Viscount Aerospace Pro, and another roomie, Tim, upgraded from his BSO gas-pipe Iverson to a Viscount GT or GP, whereas I upgraded from my all steel Fuji Special Tourer to a alloy-equipped Fuji S-10S that I rode exclusively until I was infected by the 'n+1 virus' here on BF.net... Upstairs was the Paramount guy (he had several - road, track, and tandem!), and down the hall was the Raleigh Super Course...

I had gotten involved in the Ohio State Cycling club, and helped map out (and drove the route to paint the route arrows) for our clubs inaugural TGRR'77 (The Great Reservoir Ride) a TOSRV warm-up century ride that hit the five reservoirs north of Columbus... TOSRV 77 was my first of five TOSRVs, and I rode TGRRs, MOC (Mid Ohio Century), and even over to the rival Indiana University in Bloomington for Hilly Hundred a couple times...

The club had 'extra' funds at the end of the school year from TGRR, and rather than turn it over to the school, I suggested that the club buy the tools needed to build our own wheels (truing stand, dish tool, etc)... Hence the build of my Phil-hubbed wheels for the Fuji... IIRC, the parts for the wheelset - hubs, spokes, rims, and rimtape came to just under $100 - parts and tooling were all obtained from Bike Warehouse!