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Old 12-17-16 | 10:40 AM
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From: The Bad Woods.
Just to add my .02¢ like it matters

I ride butted spokes on my mountain bike, which travels America hucking off jumps and doing various kinds of lunacy which quite literally puts my life in my own hands on almost every ride.

I ride butted spokes on my commuter bike which not only weighs close to 50lbs, but is often loaded with another 40lbs of groceries, me (160lbs) all the while wearing a messenger backpack loaded with another 30lbs of laundry or god knows what.

I ridebutted spokes (lasers) on a track bike thats seen about 5k miles on nyc streets and some gravel paths. If you've been to nyc thats all the information you need to know.

None of these wheels have broken any spokes and only only a single spoke has needed 1/8th of a turn in all the thousands of miles of these wheels history

In fact: the only spokes i ever have broken, have been straight gauge SS spokes.

I think you'll be ok
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