View Single Post
Old 10-31-06, 09:51 PM
  #5  
MrCjolsen
Senior Member
 
MrCjolsen's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Davis CA
Posts: 3,959

Bikes: Surly Cross-Check, '85 Giant road bike (unrecogizable fixed-gear conversion

Mentioned: 1 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 6 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 4 Times in 3 Posts
A shop will charge about a buck for a straight gauge spoke. A hub can cost from 20 to .... well, lots of money.

Most shops charge from 50 to 100 to build a wheel.

One option is to lace the wheel yourself and take it to a shop for the final truing and tensioning.

If you do that, then the wheel you will have will be superior in quality to a machine built wheel.

Don't underestimate the quality difference between a hand-built wheel and a machine built wheel. Even if the hand is yours.
MrCjolsen is offline