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Old 03-22-18 | 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Kontact
You're not stating a reason that a thick spoke is going to do anything differently than a thin one at the same tension.


I was assuming that everyone here would understand that a thicker spoke has a higher longitudinal spring rate in response to changes in tension force/stress, and thus a thicker spoke is a stiffer spoke.


But again, it sounds like you are still assuming that spoke tension doesn't change in response to even small changes in the wheel's loading. Is that your assumption?
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