Originally Posted by LóFarkas
Look guys, it's ridiculous for an expert to waste 3 hours on a wheel. If you are that slow with 40 years' experience, then you're either half dead or are doing something wrong.
Pretty much, yeah.
I've built 1000s of wheels in my years as bike mechanic and unless you have to cut the spokes or something it should take an hour tops.
My advice is to find somebody who's good at wheelbuilds and have them kinda mentor you.
I think this is much better than reading something online from "experts" who you don't know from Adam and even IF they are an expert what happens when you come upon a problem?
I learned from Jobst Brandts book and I took a DT (Gerd Schraner) class but mostly in the beginnning it was trial and error which is fine for a little kid (I was around 9-10 when I did my first one and believe me it SUCKED lol) but for somebody who wants to make a really nice one you probably want to minimize the errors.