Ok, ok, cheap wheels, poorly made wheels seems to be obvious for the broken spokes, but what about riding style contributing to broken spokes? (Not insinuating anything Terpfan, just broadening the topic)
I have a buddy who got a decent bike with some decent Folcrums, nothing super special but a solid level wheel. He has broken many spokes. I have to think his constant mashing style, with swaying attack-like spurts, terribly inefficiently mind you, has to do torque damage. No???
Also, I have another buddy, great rider. Built himself a beastly set of wheels with sapims and alchemy elf and (the other alchemy) with on par rims (can’t remember). He has spurts of soaring power attacks. He also breaks spokes regularly. Granted, cavendish can churn out twice as much power with with nary a ping. barring having Marky’s fleat of wrenches to finely tune his precious spinners, can’t power surges and riding style have some play in the broken spoke arena? Nes pas?
Here’s as question, do sprinters break more spokes?
