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Old 09-17-06 | 11:06 AM
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Rim eyelets

Eyeletted rims seem to have fallen out of fashion. My 7 year old Mavic tandem rim that recently started cracking at the spoke eyelets had double eyelets. I assume that the theory behind the inner eyelet is so that the spoke will also pull from the inner rim web. My Velocity Fusion replacement rim doesn't have any eyelets at all. Who can explain the reasoning behind this shift?
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