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Old 02-04-15 | 07:28 PM
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FBinNY
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Bikes: too many bikes from 1967 10s (5x2)Frejus to a Sumitomo Ti/Chorus aluminum 10s (10x2), plus one non-susp mtn bike I use as my commuter

More spokes and/or shorter spokes (all other things being equal) mean more strength and rigidity. So 4 extra spokes are roughly 13% more steel and 13% more strength.

But more strength and rigidity can also mean less resilience and a shorter service life.

You can't take these things in isolation. A wheel is a system, and the various elements work with each other as part of that system not independently.
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