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Wheel selection
Michael Press wrote: No reason not to have a second set of wheels. In addition to shopping for a boxed set consider building your own wheels. The goal for a home built set of wheels is reliability, not super race wheels. Building wheels is fun, too. Second set = more ride time, with proper management. Not like this happens every day, but I did discover a flat upon getting home the other day-- yes, using the car to get out of town with time limited. I've recently added a wheel or two to the "good" pile, so getting mobile (if I hadn't found the flat until next ride time) would mean only a quick switch and perhaps an air fill-up, and I even have tire choice g. A good end-of-year trend, esp. with limited daylight. This quick swapout, by trial, is much better for my cycling mood. It's also much better for my service/repair mood. Once a pair of new wheels, well-built and correctly set up inre bearings/grease, is in service, you have an excellent opportunity to get after the "old" set, for truing, stress relief, bearing service, done outside of ride time, no hurry. "No rush" works at the bike shop, too. One point not verbalized: once you build a set or two, then minor truing or replacing a broken spoke, or even a crunched rim, is something you can do at home. And as a FLBS owner/mech told me back in the last century: "if it's a bust, just bring me the parts, I'll build them for you". --D-y |
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