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dwood 05-03-08 04:24 PM


Originally Posted by SweetLou (Post 6630933)
No, dwood is saying that a spoke does not go beyond yield once it is tensioned in a wheel. There is elastic stretching. This is true and nothing will cause a plastic deformation. A plastic deformation will only happened if something hits the spokes, like your derailer or if the rim fails and tacos.

Thanks SweetLou.

A suggestion for T-Turtle: don't believe everything you read that has been written by 'bicycle experts' even if they claim to be engineers. I suggest you do some independent study in the Mechanical Engineering field.

TurboTurtle 05-03-08 05:08 PM


Originally Posted by SweetLou (Post 6630933)
No, dwood is saying that a spoke does not go beyond yield once it is tensioned in a wheel. There is elastic stretching. This is true and nothing will cause a plastic deformation. A plastic deformation will only happened if something hits the spokes, like your derailer or if the rim fails and tacos.

I'm trying to learn. What do you mean by "...once it is tensioned in a wheel."? It does deform during the build? - TF

SweetLou 05-03-08 05:49 PM

There is some. Have you ever taken out a spoke and it has a bend in it? That is a plastic deformation. But I was saying that stress relieving does cause some plastic deformation (disputed by dwood). Once the wheel is built and tensioned, there should be no more plastic deformation.

I also meant that there is no normal force that will cause a plastic deformation. Once a wheel is built, the spoke will only plastically deform from some outside force, like a stick in the spokes.


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