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Originally Posted by Trakhak
I've seen at least one wheel with aluminum spokes. The Hi-E company used to bring wacky designs to the bike industry trade show, and that was one of them. As I recall, it had something like 30 individual spokes, but each spoke ran continuously from a nipple on one side of the wheel through the hub and to another nipple on the other side of the wheel.

Originally Posted by Sy Reene
Campy Shamal/Eurus have aluminum spokes.. they're not that rare.
I know that aluminum spokes exist but they aren’t likely to be used for the kinds of applications that people who want to have their touring bikes fixed under the spreading chestnut tree.
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