Jerome & Elizabeth Moos wrote:
> Only one point I might rebut. Some people would not describe Jobst
> Brandt as a famous wheelbuilder or as a wheelbuilder at all. Bob
> Lickton once built me a very fine set of custom wheels, but I
> happened to comment that he did not spoke them the way Brandt
> recommended. Bob replied that Brandt should stick to his computer
> programming and leave wheelbuilding to those who had been doing it
> for a living for 25 years. I don't know how many wheels Brandt has
> actually built or if Lickton's comments were valid, but Lickton is
> certainly a skilled and experienced wheelbuilder, so I would not
> dismiss his opinions out of hand. I still use Brandt's book to build
> wheels by, however.
I think the bottom line is that there is more than one way of building a perfectly good bicycle wheel. I've built hundreds of wheels and haven't strictly followed Jobst (to be fair, I started well before his book was published).
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John (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA