Originally Posted by
vantassell
If you're doing 36 spoke 3 cross wheels with the salsa rim (never heard of it before, but if they advertise it as a 29" rim it should be pretty heavy duty) then there must be something wrong with the building technique. 36 spoke 3 cross is pretty darn strong, I don't think a lack of spokes is your problem. My guess is that it the wheels were poorly built.
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36 spokes makes for a very strong wheel, especially with modern stainless steel spokes. Especially it being that you are breaking spokes on the non-driveside, I would suspect uneven spoke tensioning.
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