Oh, galvanized steel spokes. I have a 51 Raleigh Sports with stainless spokes -- why were we still using galvanized steel spokes on much finer bikes into the 70s and occasionally later? It's my guess that the SS used in bke spokes can reliably be drawn to the tensile strength of the galvanized steel spokes without creating a product which is not sufficiently fatigue resistant and working in a manufacturing/production/shop environment is much happier with stainless. Working with galvanized wire, drawing it, forming it, dirty nasty processes. And, the galvanization offers no strength so you end up with a weaker wire for a given wire diameter, No, I think everyuthing about stainless spokes is better. We almost never complain about well made spokes fror reliable manufactures not working when properly used. At least, that's my impression.