Originally Posted by
mihlbach
Your instincts are wrong. Weight weenieism is not the reason for butted spokes. At your weight, your wheel will hold its true better with butted spokes, and the wheel will last longer without spoke breakage. Use butted spokes.
I know. A butted spoke is more elastic and has it's strength at the ends, where it needs it. I built up a touring wheel (36h/3x) with them a while back and it had more flex than a straight gauge wheel. Again, maybe I'm just being an old guy here. Back in the day, when I worked as a wrench, I would never have built a straight 15g wheel for someone my size, because it wouldn't have been stiff enough.
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