Originally Posted by
Happy Feet
It seems the 1120 still comes with 28h wheels. We talked about that quite a bit a couple of years ago in the touring sub forum. There were a number of complaints about spokes breaking back then. Not sure why the low spoke count choice for a bike designed for rugged off road use. More "looks" than practicality IMO.
Rim designs have change (improved) since your talks years ago...Making them sufficiently strong enough with 28 spokes.