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Originally Posted by big john
I have built my own wheels and I'm not that good at it and I don't like doing it. I prefer to pay someone who knows what they are doing.
Yeah, wheel building takes patience and practice to get it right. I learned as a pre-teen from my dad. That was over 50 years ago (geez!).

Wheel building also takes a lot of time. I prefer re-tensioning a factory wheel to building one from scratch. It's quicker.
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