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Originally Posted by martl
This is also why a tied and soldered wheel has almost no stiffness advantage; on the contrary, it denies the spoke the use of some of its length to deal with dynamic deformations of the wheel.
A larger diameter spoke can take more tension; a spoke with aero and weighr advantage like a sapim cx ray has a smaller cross section area and thus cant be tightened as hard as a larger diameter spoke as round spokes usually will have; this creates a slightly less laterally sfiff wheel.
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You tie and solder mostly to reduce the amount of movement of the spoke at the hub, mostly on non drive side rear, to try to eliminate broken spokes there.
The tension of a 14g, non butted straight gauge spoke and a thin, oval spoke should be the same on a well built wheel...as measured on a spoke tension meter...both should be 'about' 100-110 kgf for a normal rim...fronts and drive side rears.