jmcookesq
XS650 Member
I have a 74 bike that I am redoing. All the spokes were pretty rusted so I had the rims and hubs powdercoated, got some new spokes and by following the advice of the forum here, got the wheels laced up. I then went over my powdercoater's place to borrow his truing stand ( he is a Triumph guy and does spoke wheels quite a bit). Suddenly, he starts telling me how I needed to check the backspace, offset, spoke tension, etc. Basically, he told me I didn't know what I was doing and I needed to find someone that was an expert on these wheels before going any further. I know a lot of guys here on the forum do their own wheels so I wanted to ask if this guy is just an alarmist or am I missing something? Thanks in advance for your help.