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Old 09-02-12 | 08:29 AM
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Bikes: 1954 Raleigh Sports 1974 Raleigh Competition 1969 Raleigh Twenty 1964 Raleigh LTD-3

Safe spoke tension has much more to do with what the rim can withstand than "when the nipples round off."

Run too high a tension and the rim will crumble as the spoke holes crack and deform.
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