I have had a love/hate relationship with these wheels. The first 3000 miles were pretty trouble free, only needing to add grease to the freehub. After 3000 miles, the wheels started breaking spokes. They are bladed aero spokes, but I cannot see a brand. I have ordered spare spokes from Easton and replaced as broken. I have probably installed 8 NDS spokes, 2 front spokes and now I have one broken DS spoke. The wheel always trued right up again after the new spoke was installed.

I began to theorize that the spokes stretched over time as I never had the wheels re-tensioned and I understand loose spokes will cause the wheel to flex and then break from the beating. The NDS spokes would be loose, but the DS spokes were rock solid. I tried to re-tension myself, but did not do a great job as I tried to equalized based on sound of pinging the spoke. This rapidly took the wheel out of true and I was back to re-truing the wheel. I then tried to use equal turns on the NDS side and it re-dished the wheel to rub on the frame rail. I backed it off a bit, went for a ride and then broke the DS side.

1) Is there a point where spokes are too stretched/old/used to be tensioned properly?
2) Is this a problem with aero spokes in particular?

I was about to trash can the wheels and call them a great ride for 3000 miles, but I realized that the wheels still spin great and are in great condition except for the spokes. The wheels were about $450 originally. So I checked out buying a complete set of CS-Ray spokes and it comes to close to $150 (20 and 24 spoke wheels).

3) Would anyone advise trying this?
4) If I did try to rebuild, would it be possible to do a 2x pattern on NDS to match the DS to make the wheel stronger?