Originally Posted by
Grim
Why I gravitate towards Touring bikes. Most come with rock solid hubs and36 spoke wheels. I'm 225. Busted a spoke on a 32 spoke replacement wheel last week
Did take me about 1500 miles and I did not retention the wheel from the time I put it on till it broke the spoke. Funny but the bent wheel it replaced never broke a spoke and its front mate is still on the bike and doing fine. I have put about 2200 miles on it in the 1.5 years I have owned it. The bike is a 95.
My main commuter just got rebuilt with it's factory Parallax hubs and new set of Sun CR18 rims. Time to buy the CR18's for the other bike and get the 36 spoke back on the bike.
My 84 Fuji came factory with a 48 spoke rear. It is BOMB proof.
Yeah, i'm not a wheel expert by far, but even with the bent rim it seems that spoke tension is much more important than keeping the rim perfectly true...i noticed that the mavic has an ever-so-slight hump to it(not noticable when riding though, so i know the a719 is not dead perfect) but the tension is pretty close to my ears with the plucks, so it sounds like everything is dialed in...i had a wheel built last summer with the CR18's and i had constant truing issues, and then the popped spokes, but i think the tension was too low on the non-drive side spokes to begin with, because i had someone else build it, who, in all fairness to him, didn't really understand how heavy i was, and how hard i ride
...i read good things about that rim, though...and a 48-spoke? Wow, your legs must be tree-trunks
