[alancw3]

great article. thanks for sharing. way back (like 25 years ago) i bought a bob jackson that had been built for an olypmic hopeful that was a teammate of greg lemond. one of those bikes i should have never sold. anyway one day i am out riding and i hear a "pop" sound but i keep riding because i could not figure out what happened. got home like 30 miles later and sure enough a spoke on the drive side had broken but the wheel was still in perfect true. i could not believe that as my prior experience had been that when i spoke broke the wheel went completely out of true, subsequently having talked to a couple of accomplished wheel builders that is like perfection. like something to do with balanced tension on the wheel.