Do Ellipses require Mavic's special spokes? To me, requiring proprietary (and usually quite expensive) spokes is a huge downside, but then maybe I'm just paranoid (and a really ****ty wheelbuilder - though I've never actually broken any spokes yet).
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Bikes: 1996 Eddy Merckx Titanium EX, 1989/90 Colnago Super(issimo?) Piu(?), 1990 Concorde Aquila(hit by car while riding), others in build queue "when I get the time"