i.m.o. its all about workmanship, a bit more ethereal than "hard science" ... and a LOT more accepting of uncontrolables like "experience" and "having the touch" ... that said I have a lot of respect for the process control-focus of mass producing wheels, I just think of my own wheels now-a-days as something other than mere consumables.
Dale Phelps, Longmont CO
Kurt Sperry <haxixe@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think the bottom line is that there is more than one way of building a
> perfectly good bicycle wheel.
Whilst this is obviously true, I wonder if Brandt and Lickton et al would
be too ideologically entrenched to admit the obvious. Wheelbuilding as it's
frequently espoused seems like one part science and about four or five part s dogma. Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA
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