Originally Posted by
Lazyass
If temperature was going to affect spoke tension I would think they would loosen up in the cold when metal contracts.
Aluminum shrinks more than spokes or nipples material so I'd think it (spoke in the spoke hole) would get tighter in cold.
If you meant spoke tension, a ring contracts the same as a cylinder, or spokes, and an aluminum rim has a higher coefficient of expansion, so it does seem to me that the spoke tensions would get lower in cold.