Originally Posted by
MrCjolsen
Even so, a 36 spoke track wheel is going to be almost idiot proof. I got a wheelset for $100. It was one of those cheap Dimension hubs laced to a Velocity Aero rim.
I just put it on my bike and rode the crap out of it. After a while, I noticed that one or two of the spokes had completely de-tensioned. You could turn the nipple without a spoke wrench. However, the wheel had barely gone out of true.
Well I wouldn't exactly call dentesioned spokes on a wheel "idiot proof". It means is that the original wheel wasn't
1) tensioned properly
2) stress relieved
e.g wheels that were factory built that nobody ever checked, which is the majority of wheelsets out there