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Old 04-22-21, 02:47 PM
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Psimet2001 
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I've always tried to take the long view with wheel building - gimmicky things are fun to talk about but what we have been doing as standard practice is really solid and repeatable and proven itself out over decades.

Triplet lacing, or variants of that are fun but don't really impact the life of the wheel. They can vastly improve the fatigue life of non-drive side spokes just due to the unloading cycle delta being a smaller % of the yield stress of the material as the nds spokes are a higher tension ...but... I'm not inundated with piles of NDS spoke failures from the poor tension balance we have been working with for decades. So not exactly a solution for me yet.
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