Originally posted by William Karsten
What you can do, and what I plan to do is to buy a junk bike, and dissasemble the wheels and then re do them. Cheap, easy way to learn.
Yes, one can do that, but also need to really pay attention to the direction of rim eyelets when lacing spokes, for example.... The book also teaches you which and how to lace the 'first set' of spokes, which is very important.....after that the rest of the spokes just fall into place.