Originally Posted by
Jtgyk
It's a good thing they do...so far in the Alpine III the size I've been able to find online is 288mm then it jumps to 290mm (what I had ordered) the calculator at DT (for the drive side) came up with a real length of 288.8 and rounded it up to 289. I'll, hopefully be able to get enough tension with the 290's.
You may be just fine with the 290's but I would have ordered the 288's. Even if they build right there is a possibility that they may stretch over time. I'm having to replace the driveside rear spokes on two of my wheels sets because the Revolution spokes stretched so much over a period of 5 years that the nipples bottomed out on the spoke threads and it was no longer possible to increase tension. Same thing happened to me on a set of MAVIC factory built Helium wheels.
The Alpine spokes should not stretch as much as Revolutions.