Nice wheels

For you unfortunate souls out there who, like me, can't wake up without a couple of cups of coffee and a visit to the fixedgeargallery.com, this might be of interest: Prowheelbuilder.com has a pretty cool website, and the nice thing is that you can build your wheel on the website from the hub outwards. So you can choose from, hubs, spokes (colored or not) nipples and colored nipples, rims and rim color. From there you're asked your weight and how the rim is going to be used, and if you have any special instructions. For example; drill for schrader valve and alternate black and red nipples and black and red spokes (black spoke/red nipple) or any such eccentricities. The next screen will show you your total cost, plus the weight of the built wheel.
In my case it looked sort of like this:

FRONT WHEEL

Rims: Velocity VELOCITY DEEP V TRACK 700c BLACK RIM NonMachinedSideWall

Hubs: PHIL WOOD TRACK RED FRONT HUB (drool...)

Spokes: DT Swiss DT SWISS CHAMPION 14 GUAGE BLACK SPOKES

Nipples: Red

Weight: 1100.4 grams

Price: $272.00 plus $32 shipping.

mmmm....tasty, and the price is not bad either even though it's in US$. However, the question remains whether or not prowheelbuilder can build the same quality wheels as our resident Zen master, Stevie-Wan Kenobi. This remains to be seen.