[QUOTE=cyccommute;13950753]Never read the book.
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You really should. Or, at least the first two chapters. Chapter One is only 40 or so pages long. Its available as a pdf on the net if you can be bothered to search for it. I think it would lend clarity to your many years of experience and the relationships between: strength vs durability, rim deformation leading to spoke fatigue, fatigue leading to breakage, rim depth and width's inpact of stiffness, etc.
Its worth your time to read.
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