Originally Posted by
davidad
Fewer spokes require higher tension. Mavic recommends 110kg on their rims. You should be able to use more. Did you stress relieve the wheel when you built it? If it were overtensioned when you squeezed the paired spokes the rim would have taken a curve.
You'd have to severly overtension a wheel to cause is to take a curve after a stress relief cycle...
Typically what happens is that the rim come out of true in 3-4 spots...spots that you'd swear had been corrected only a few minutes earlier...
Inflating a tire an tube on the same overtensioned wheel however tends to reveal alot...
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