I'm going to condense this in to the quote attributed alternately to Keith Bontrager or Tom Ritchey: "You can have Light, Cheap, and Strong. Pick Two."


[QUOTE=JohnDThompson;20555789]I'd instead put the blame on the modern fashion for low spoke count wheels, which require higher individual spoke tensions, exacerbated by he disc brake which put more stress on the spokes. Anodizing the rim also introduces a stress riser, as the anodized layer is more brittle than the underlying aluminum. As the late Jobst Brandt noted:...………………………...
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