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?
admittedly breaking a spoke is pretty rare, but a bit of truing is much more common, and requires all the hassle outlined above.
In my case, just one spoke on the back wheel became completely de tensioned after a 1000 miles or so, which seemed a bit weird