Originally Posted by lucklust
Unknown, but I love them to death! The local wheelbuilding celebrity at 'Gravy Wheels' won't build them because of supposed strength issues, but I've got many thousands of miles of popping curbs and getting hit by cars on them with nary a problem. Hell, they're still true.
In
The Art of Wheelbuilding, Schraner first warns about how weak twisted spokes are and then writes something along the lines of "it's better for kids to roll spokes than to roll joints."
I had a big
over that.