Originally Posted by
Drew Eckhardt
There are people with no fatigue failures after 200,000 - 300,000 miles on a set of spokes.
Those of us riding a more moderate 4000-5000 miles annually should be able to make it to our graves without such a failure, especially if we adopt new technology like cassette hubs, power meter hubs, disc brake hubs, etc. as it comes along.
And went through the trouble of posting a straw man because?
=8-)
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