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I'm not a big fan of increasing spoke tension till "the wheel starts to taco" then backing off.

think about plastic vs. elastic deformation.

my opinion, for most conventional, tangentially spoked, 32 or 36 spoke wheels with double butted spokes, an average of 75-80 kgf on the drive side is fine. Off side and front will be a little less. The wheel will be long lived and resilient.

remember that clincher tires, when fully inflated, will decrease the spoke tension "a little bit"

how that number converts to your tension guage, and / or if it is accurately calibrated, is a question that we cannot answer here.

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