Originally Posted by
joejack951
Aluminum is roughly 1/3 of the weight of brass. If you've saved all the weight you can afford elsewhere why wouldn't you use aluminum nipples to save 30-50 grams off your wheelset?
1 1/2 ounces of weight savings? Big whooop. I would much rather have the convenience of brass nipples. No worrying about cracking nippples, no worrying about rounding them off down the road, no worrying about corroding/corrosion, etc etc. I imagine if you are a real racer, the weight savings might matter but even then, it would be much less than 1 1/2 ounces since a racer wheel will probably have a 20-16 spoke wheelset compared to a 32-32 spoke wheelset that works out to the 1 1/2 ounces.