Originally Posted by
Psimet2001
To whomever keeps saying that spoke breakage never happens - you don't ride enough. All spokes will eventually fail via fatigue even when they are high quality spokes and the wheels are built correctly. The thing is that the fatigue life for most of the modern spokes that we are using ends up being a lot higher than the life of the rims in most cases. That's the main reason we don't see it as often.
I didn't see anyone saying spoke breakage never happens, but it's cool you don't see it often, or as often as rim failure (I'm not quite clear which you were saying there).