(12-01-2018, 08:43 PM)clasher Wrote: I would suggest buying and reading Roger Musson's wheelbuilding book if you are serious about building a set.
Thanks for that, just bought myself a copy.
I doubt that wheel building is anything I'll ever do, but I remember back in the early 90s when I was biking to and from college on ye olde 27 x 1 1/4" rims they would always warp after a month. I had a spoke wrench and would tweak them by tightening here or loosening there to get them back into true, but eventually they'd wind up true but egg-shaped, and nothing my deductive brain said should help was helping and so I'd bring them in to Braun's for professional service. With this book I can hopefully give 20 year old me some closure.
(The solution back then was to buy 27 x 1 1/8" racing rims with presta valves that cost twice what that high school road bike did. The guy at Braun's said they used a different spoke pattern which was much more stable and wouldn't have warping issues, and he was bang on. I still have that old bike with those rims on it today, though it gathers dust in the basement in deference to the mountain bike.)
...K