Originally Posted by
randyjawa
My question is why would anyone want to do this? Form and to heck with function? It makes little sense to weaken the component that gets the most, and most aggressive, use.
Still, each to his own and let us know how it works out.
Well, to each his own, I guess. I've had those 24-spokers on that bike for decades, and I live with some of the worst roads in the nation, but I'm relatively light at 160 lb. The only issues have been that the 7000 series Ergals can eventually fatigue and blow out a ferrule (as I indicated), but that has almost nothing to do with spoke count, it's just that those (most excellent) rims do that after tens of thousands of miles, usually....