The set you have is just fine..
micromanaging for time trials with wind tunnels to test in
engineering departments at universities to use, and
plenty of backing capital for the Pro race circuit,
created a fashion statement and a marketing opportunity.
Yes, less spokes mean each remaining spoke suffers
a big load imbalance loss when 1 breaks
but those guys have a spare bike on the team support car right behind them.
Occasionally fix a wheel of summer tourists headed down the coast
on some rather inappropriate wheels, but at least they are going,
and enjoying the trip.
For loaded touring , i'm a belt and braces sort , the wheels were built
with tandem spec stuff.
so I had no problems , on the road. with my wheels , but for 1 spoke, in 20 years.
Last edited by fietsbob; 08-17-11 at 01:53 PM.