Originally Posted by Deanster04
Don't mean to be a techno geek but the compressive load on a round object will have no effect on spoke tension because the metal won't shrink. The load is transferred tangentially or something like that. The spoke loading on the wheel once it is uniformally under tension so the wheel is round and laterally true it is independent of the tire except where the tire is in an upward tension on the rim trying in vain (one hopes) to remove itself from the rim. Luckily the forces also push to the side keeping the bead in its proper location.
Materials do compress under load. Would you take a thin sphere submarine down a couple miles into the ocean? I mean if it doesn't compress, you don't have much to worry about, right?
