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Old 07-25-07, 07:25 PM
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Ill agree to that but will also add that on track its a problem only associated with 15guage spokes, not 14 guage. And is also a problem more common on the non drive side of road wheels. On a 9/10 speed road wheel the non drive side has WAY less tention than the drive side and the spoke heads do rock around a bit damaging the hub and eventualy breaking the heads. A bunch of years ago my shops wheel guy started building road wheels with radial non driveside and in the case of early 9speed shimano hubs DT washers also. I do this also. Non of those wheels have come back with broken spokes.

Single sided track wheels are offset and will have less tention in the non driveside but is no-wear near the ratio of a road wheel. And if your into tieing and soldering your track wheels you wont have any issues with spokes breaking off..............


.............unless you have a pedal jammed in there.
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