Originally Posted by
pepperbelly
I talked to my local wheel builder this morning. He said he wouldn’t be comfortable rebuilding this wheel. He really doesn’t like there being 20 spokes on one side and 10 on the other.
I am just having him build a new wheel. It will be a Shimano 105 hub and a Sun RhynoLite rim plus whatever spokes he thinks is best for me.
Sounds like your builder is not familiar with the triplet design. It is a sound system and addresses two issues. It puts two thirds of the spokes on the drive side, which on a radically dished wheel carries most of the load as well as increasing the tension on the non drive side spokes because the tension required to centre the rim is shared by fewer spokes.