Originally Posted by
tomato coupe
I don't think there's much of a monetary cost for internal nipples and, given how seldom most people break spokes, there usually isn't more effort involved. In that case, why not take the free 1 W?
I’ll take a free watt any day, right down to my aero socks. But I am cheap that way.
Edit. When I first started road biking back in the 80s and would start breaking spokes, since I couldn’t afford a wheel builder, I would buy a wheel off the rack and would hit a pot hole or something and break another spoke. This went on for several years. Finally could afford to have decent aluminum wheels built and the problem went away. Ah the ‘good ole days’