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@RabiCycle
My wheel building experience is limited to watching my father do this when I was a kid but hey cant be that hard. Also perfect in door winter bike building activity. Also I love watching the moustachioed guy in the park tool youtube videos explain stuff and I binged the entire wheel building playlist front to back several times. THATS my escapism.
I had a deore hub that I wanted to use. The frame was able to take 130 OLD already but this hub was 135. probably could have squeezed it in but I felt like I was asking a lot already from these old skinny tubes so I put the axle spacer and axle on the lathe and took 5mm off. I also "borrowed" some Bosch Ali profile "offcuts" and corner pieces and made a truing stand. Truing went okay! Radial is quite hard and I stopped when I was about 1mm off. Not perfect, but with the tyre on it's not really noticeable...
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