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Widely acknowledged as the #1 instruction book for wheelbuilding The Professional Guide to
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The secrets of the perfect wheel revealed...
- Build your own professional quality wheels and save money
- Tools, components, building, truing, design, spoke lengths, repairing and a wealth of first-hand tips
- 105 pages size US Letter (A4) and over 70 detailed razor-sharp CAD diagrams and full-colour photos
- Access my complete knowledge
- 100% money-back guarantee - after reading no one has ever asked for a refund!
- Free upgrades
Today I just finished reading what I consider the finest wheel building book available and I want to share it with you.
forums.mtbr.com
Note: this comment referred to the previous 3rd Edition.
This book covers all types of wheels; Road race, Touring, Mountain bike, etc. because all wheels are built the same. Build one and you can build anything.
Wheel Building - the definitive guide. 105 pages. £9
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Here's the deal:
- Get a comprehensive guide to wheelbuilding - buy the book
- If it doesn't meet your expectations get a refund!
I can't be any fairer than that.
If you're serious about building wheels then my book is essential reading. Delivered as an instant download in printable PDF format, Wheel Building is my illustrated book showing everything I do as one of the most respected professional wheel builders. I hold nothing back. In just a few minutes from now you'll be on your way to building your own professional quality wheels - or your money back!
When I started building wheels I had so many questions and was never sure I was doing it 100% correct. The free resources and other books served only as a basic introduction and left me wanting to know more. In my book I've answered those questions, filled in the missing parts, corrected their errors and gone even further, but it took many years of building and evaluating building techniques. When I made the decision to build my own wheels I'd have willingly paid many times the asking price for the knowledge given in this book.
Dear Wheel Builder
Hi, my name's Roger Musson.
I'll get straight to the point.
If you want to build or maintain your own wheels, then you're faced with a simple choice:
- Be a hero and go it alone. Struggle for years to master the craft and, little by little, learn from your costly mistakes. That's the hard way. Or...
- Be smart and grab a copy of my Wheel Building e-book and gain complete access to the knowledge of one the most respected professional wheel builders. Does it get any easier than that?
This is a lifetime's wheel building experience, distilled into a book that covers EVERYTHING wheelbuilding. I keep nothing back. I walk you through exactly how to build the perfect wheel. When you've finished reading, you'll know as much as I do - and you'll have mastered that knowledge in a fraction of the time. And that's at the heart of what I'm about to teach you - the easy way of doing things.
My book is for anyone who wants to build great wheels. If you already build wheels you'll find plenty here to move you on to the next level. And if you're just starting out, you can be confident that you'll be armed with all the information you'll ever need to build professional quality wheels.
For the price of a cheap tire I'll show you how to build professional quality wheels
I've taught thousands of people how to build wheels.
Additionally, this book is for anyone who wants to appreciate what a good wheel should be like, whether you build one or not. Do you believe that your wheels need retensioning? are you often getting them re-trued? Both of these are false statements. Most shop bought wheels are built to a price and most builders don't know what goes into a good wheel and you end up sorting out the problems once you've ridden them. Armed with the knowledge of what makes a good wheel you can take a fresh look at your purchase and rectify the problems.
I'll show you exactly how to build wheels just like the above.
Wheel Building - the definitive guide. 105 pages. £9
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Who am I?
I'm a professional wheel builder with a BSc. (hons) Degree in Production Engineering from the University of Aston Birmingham. I'm based in Preston, UK, where I own and build the wheels at the famous wheel building shop, Wheelpro.
I mastered my craft through building and maintaining precision wheels for myself as an amateur and then as a professional for Wheelpro customers, including super-strong wheels for professional downhill MTB race teams. At this level only the best is good enough. Mistakes simply aren't an option.
As a sponsor of professional bike teams, I've spent years at the sharp end of competitive cycling - out in the field. Rain or shine, I've watched as my wheels were pounded hard by professional racers, studied how they've performed against other people's wheels; gained an unrivalled reputation for building and repairing crash damage and providing total support.
I've run wheel-building courses, and I'm regularly invited to deliver wheel-building demonstrations at cycle shows by component manufacturers.
I've built so many wheels and evaluated so many wheel components and building techniques that I've stopped counting. But over the years I've come to know what I like and dislike, what works and what doesn't. There's no guesswork in anything I do. I deal only with the facts. And now I've decided to share my knowledge.
Wheel Building is the result. Buy it now. And In just two minutes you'll be on your way to building your own professional-standard wheels.
Wheel Building - the definitive guide. 105 pages. £9
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What you get
Let me tell you what's in my book. You get 105 pages packed with solid information. It's delivered as an instant download pdf book. You can read it on-screen and take advantage of all the clickable bookmarks and cross references, or simply print it out.
Here's a preview of the content:
This guy has a pretty nice spoke calculator. But more importantly is the downloadable wheel building PDF. This "book" is amazing. Very well thought out, very easy to use. I am using it to keep me on track while building some wheels right now. It's 105 pages long and tells you a lot. 
Chicago Fixed Gear forum
Components and Features
- Rims
- Eyelet design
- Hubs
- Spokes
- Spoke threads
- Inside and outside spokes
- Spoke orientation
- Nipples
Tools
- Spoke wrench
- The wheel jig (truing stand)
- Wheel dishing gauge
- The nipple driver
- Bladed spoke tool
- Nipple holder
- Chain whip
- Tensiometer
I can vouch for Rogers book. I build a fair bit of wheels via the shop and most of what I learned was from Wheelpro. Well worth the few quid it costs. 
Singletrackworld
Building
- Lubricants and Adhesives
- Lacing the Wheel
- Aligning the hub label with the rim valve hole
- Completing the wheel
- Wheel tolerances
- How long should it take?
- Testing your wheel
- Building a Mavic UST wheel
Repairing
- Checking the wheel
- Loose spokes
- Damaged spokes
- Spoke breakages
- Rim-wear and damage
- Hub damage
- Replacing a rim or hub
Wheel Designs
- Standard crossed wheels
- Radial wheels
- Cross combinations on the same wheel
- Number of spokes
- Design considerations
Spoke Lengths
- Using a different hub
- Using a different rim
- The spoke length formula and proof
- Measuring hubs and rims
- How nipple length affects spoke length
Build your own tools!
My book includes details of all the wheel-building tools I use.
As a professional wheel builder I can afford to buy whatever tools I like. So you'll be surprised to learn that I prefer to make my own. They're better and they make the job easier. And in my book I'll show you just how simple it is.
Learn how to make your own:
- Ultimate wheel jig (truing stand)
- Professional-quality nipple driver
- Perfect wheel dishing gauge - that costs nothing!
Wheel Building - the definitive guide. 105 pages. £9
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What people are saying about my book...
If you have any doubts about the quality of this book then ask on your favourite cycling forum because I can guarantee people there will be using it - this book is hugely popular world-wide.
Many thanks for the book. I had every intention of buying the book and asking for a refund as soon as I had read it. I've been building wheels for many years and thought that I knew petty well how to build wheels.
However, I learned a hell of a lot from your book, stuff I never knew and the wheel I built using your book is the best I've ever built. It's stayed true from it's very first outing and that despite being used for commuting. 100 miles a week on London's potholed streets is no easy ride, I can assure you. I now have no intension of asking you for a refund since I think the book is well worth it. Matthew, UK.
wheelbuilder.blogspot.com
[This review and comments relate to the pre-2007 update]
If you want to see some current discussions then go to this page.
Your 100% no-risk guarantee
People are consistently delighted with my book and I'm certain that you will be too. In fact I'm so confident that you'll find my book indispensable that I'm offering you an unconditional 60 day guarantee:
Buy my book. And if for any reason you don't like it - any reason whatsoever - simply contact me and I'll refund your money - in full. No questions. No quibbles.
That's as fair as it gets.
Email : Roger
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That's all
That's it for now.
Thanks for reading.
Happy building!
Any questions on my wheel building book?
Just drop me a line : Roger Musson
Add Roger Musson's Practical Guide to Wheel Building to the all-star list. I've built maybe 35 sets of wheels, studied 4 different books, tried half a dozen different lacing patterns, been privately tutored, and even attended a wheel building clinic. Still, Roger added to my store of knowledge with a dead-on explanation of why he laces spokes from outside-in first (his is the best way), how to find the key spoke (in other books I was found confusing explanations about rare type two rims ), and very clean, understandable drawings. This is no small thing. Instead of photos or anatomically correct drawings, Roger collaborated with the artist to stylize the wheel so that the rim holes and lacing patterns were much more apparent than from any single angle.
I used the book last week to teach my friend, John, who is very mechanical, how to lace and build a wheel. I think he would have done just as well without me, which is to say that the book is a fine teaching aid for beginners as well reinforcing or correcting old habits.
If I had to pick just one wheelbuilding book to recommend, this would be it. Gerd Schraner also does a nice job. Jobst would be unhappy to hear I rank him third.
Drew from the US