my wheels are starting to tell me its time for them to be redone, the fronts are rather loose at the wheel, and they click and clack and creek and crunch (kind of like my knees). seeing as i found them in friends yard, i think they have served a good term.
ive seen you can get spokes from the vendors and like 10-12 dollars a piece, that price seems outrageous to me. ive seen stutzmans wheels at like 150 a pop, plus shipping. which is really reasonable. but shipping from where im at would be spendy, ive heard you can buy just spokes from Stutzmans and that they are quite nice. is this a good way of going?
i know respoking is probably a highly talked about item and somwhere amidst the hundreds of threads the answer to my question lies, but then that would take all the fun out of it.
I assembled a pair of new wheels this summer using Stutzman spokes and the Regan press. The spokes are excellent, and the press makes assembly simple. Twenty-five spokes (an extra was included) with shipping came to $152. Here's a long discussion on making wheels:
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/257047/298628.html?1344097972,
and another: http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/257047/302832.html
and a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKZ7WrfHdf8.
One caution: all the above applies only if your wheels have steel felloes, not wood.