Researching this question I found a thread from 2003 in this forum that included a message by Mr Jobst Brandt. He wrote, 'Cyclic stress causes fatigue cracks and a thinner spoke as a lower N/mm elongation than a fat one. Hence the rim knows as does the nipple, that stress excursions with thinner spokes are lower,'
This sounded counter to what I think, that he wrote that a thinner spoke stretches less for the same force/distance applied , both the 'lower elongation' and 'lower excursion'. Is it too late to ask? If so, I apologize.
This sounded counter to what I think, that he wrote that a thinner spoke stretches less for the same force/distance applied , both the 'lower elongation' and 'lower excursion'. Is it too late to ask? If so, I apologize.