Just wondering how much I’d pay for a wheel build with black dtswiss comp spokes 32 hole hubs
Got the rims and hubs, so it would be spokes + labour
Considering building them myself but not sure how much I would end up saving

Considering the shops going to make nowt off the rims or hub they’ll probably be looking to make more off the build. £25 min, I reckon.

It seems like wheel build season on here at the moment, so why not give it a go…
Did my first yesterday & its come out good.

most shops would charge around £35 labour per wheel (its 45 minutes work) and DT Swiss Comp black spokes (x 32) cost £28.48 and DT brass nipples cost £4.16 for 32

any shops that are doing labour + spokes for £40 are idiots who won’t be in business for long…

Recently charged £25 + spokes for a wheel build, think it came to £90+ for the 2 wheels.

Since then i have bought roger munson’s (wheel pro) guide and am building his stand at the moment. Have found the same bike shop will charge £12.50 for a wheel true and tune up and know i can source spokes cheeper than what i paid from them so i’m definatly giving it a go next time.

I recon with the outlay of the
guide £9 :- http://www.wheelpro.co.uk/wheelbuilding/book.php
spoke key £6 :- http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=41056
and getting a couple of bits to make a stand and bodge a nipple driver even if the wheels need to go into the shop to be tuned i’ll break even with the first price.

Spoke prices seem to vary enormously. Cheapest I could find for small quantities (i.e. less than boxes of 100) were http://www.rosebikes.co.uk in Germany. €17 for 32 black DT Swiss comp spokes, €2 for 40 brass nipples + €5.95 shipping.

+1 for getting the book and DIY. I paid less than £20 for a cheap chipboard shelf and a strip of steel from B&Q, and some black plastic from ebay.

I also splashed out on a dishing tool (£20) but you could do it without.

My local charges about £35.

I think I paid £20 per wheel for my last set of wheels…but I think they gave me a few quid off the build as I bought everything from them.

It was money I was happy to pay, especially in hindsight, as the wheels have been absolutely spotty dog.

we’re £25 a wheel….mechanic went on a 4 day dt swiss course and is very good….plus spokes

That rosebikes site has some good prices, especially if you buy the spokes in bunches of 20 (£7.90) and the nipples in 40’s(£1.79) wich will give you a few spares if you ever break or damage a spoke.

A while back there was a thread about the uk importer of Rose bikes, any one know how that turned out?

I don’t know about an importer, but Rose had a massive stand at the recent London bike show, and I noticed they are registered for UK VAT (handy for C2W stuff) so I think they’re taking the UK market pretty seriously.

Can anyone recommend good places to buy rims? i am looking for an all mountain enduro type rim arround the 500g mark that is less than £50 a rim, seems almost impossible, beginning to wish i had picked up some ztr flow rims when they were £44 from CRC