Suggestions… For the prep - if it is just you, 32 spoke double-butted should be fine. If you want to add another 40 pounds, go with 36 spokes. I ordered my rims directly from Velocity. I got my Deore hubs from eBay, since I wanted specific units. There is also Amazon. For spokes, go to your Local Bike Shop, since they have spoke length calculators. Double butted cost about $1.5x un-butted spokes. Double butted, in my opinion, look slightly nicer and weigh slightly less, but either is fine.
Then assemble per Jim Langley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUqul03hbZ8 Snug all the spokes up to the same depth with a screwdriver, and then take the assembled wheel back to the LBS for truing. If you have a plastic hammer you can tap down the bends where the spokes exit the hubs, but for the first set you can leave this to the LBS when they tension and true the wheel. I found tensioning and truing to be kind of a zen thing - and easy, though repetitive. Given the cost of truing stands, and what the LBS charges to do it, you have to decide how many wheels you want to do in your life, though. Figure about 15 wheels would pay for a good stand. But the feeling of riding on wheels you built yourself - priceless. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/71cff0f0-46d7-4270-9692-de36e05c3f11n%40googlegroups.com.
