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Old 02-05-10 | 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by noglider
The origin is that breaking spokes used to let the spoke stick out and cause a worse accident, so tying and soldering would keep a broken spoke in place.
It also makes it easy to replace a damaged rim.
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