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Old 11-17-13, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by dynaryder
Very easy to pop spokes if the wheels aren't tensioned properly to start with.
Yes of course. I went over my entire wheel with a Park Spoke Tension gauge and adjusted the spoke tension to the Mavic's recommendation so that spoke tension was #/-5% spoke to spoke on a given side. Wheel was trued to within 1mm. Then I broke three more spokes. In 30 years of riding, never seen anything like it. I think it's the rims since this is the second rim I've had trouble with (but different problem - spoke holes cracking. Mavic replaced under warranty) and Mavic may be having QC problems with this particular rim.

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