Originally Posted by
Kontact
Skipping spoke holes on the rim is a bad idea. Rims have very little strength of their own, and having gap with a hole in it is just giving the rim a chance to collapse.
You can get away with it more with a fat tire, but still, bad idea.
Quick! Call the engineers and Campy and tell them their Zonda wheels don't meet your engineering principals. Then alert DT that their multiple lines of rims that come with drillings from 20H to 32H are not designed properly and will fail. Next, use your engineering degree to show how it's worse for a rim to have an extra hole un-tensioned compared to tensioned hole.
The silliest statement you've made is that rims have very little strength of their own. You can't have build very many wheels to make such a wrong-headed claim.
LOL, earth science isn't really the background you need to make statements as you have .....
In the meantime I'll do the cycling equivalent of running with scissors by continuing to use my most dangerous wheel.