Originally Posted by
mstateglfr
24 is only 4 away from 28.
28 is 8 away from 36.
20 is 4 away from 24.
28 spokes on what is marketed as arough tough go anywhere heavy duty pack it up bike is akin to the terms jumbo shrimp and astronomically small.
...those are oxymorons, just to be clear.
I'm not trying to say that I know more about wheels than the Trek engineers know and have tested. Those guys get paid well to know more than I do. Sure I was surprised at 28 spokes. My road bicycle does very well with 20/24 radial. Another example, look at the spoke count on some of the tandems now-a-days. I was surprised about that also. I trust that Trek knows what they are doing.