Originally Posted by
davidad
I think that there is much ado about nothing about spoke length into the nipples. I built one wheel with Al nipples and after a few years and over 20k miles the Al got brittle and broke when I tried to tweak the wheel's spokes.
I always build with brass.
I replaced it with brass - I think rebuilding this particular wheel with all brass is a little bit of a fool's errand considering the wear on the brake track.
Also, I have been just SEARCHING for an excuse to run tubular tires on this bike so my next set of wheels may be just that (as controversial as that sounds)