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Borrowing my friends Kubota k008 to do some driveway grading. Having a good ol time but woke up to snow and now the site is muddy mess. Dammit, there is more dirt to move before the gravel can go in.
i will say, despite my shoddy wheelbuilding skills, the use of gorilla tape, a cheap wtb rim, and a crappy exo casing, this was the first tire i've ever mounted tubeless that i could immediately seat and that held air with only a basic floor pump.
Black spokes == unrideabru
They make different color spokes?
Y U color your spokes?They make different color spokes?
Black don't crack
no bladed no care
My wife's 575 has black bladed spokes
i used to make fun of bladed spokes, but i now have 2 sets of wheels with them.
makes more sense.
The only spokes that corroded/cracked on me were all black.
I am firmly in the bladed camp now, too.
Appraised at $425k. He said we are in good shape. He thought our place looked great compared to others in this hood, so that was nice.
I only tried bladed spokes once - broke several on the rear wheel almost immediately. They broke right at the point where the "blade" started. Had that wheel rebuilt with regular double-butted spokes.
DT Champion DB have been the only spokes used on all of my hand built wheels for the last 15yrs. Not a single broken spoke that I can recall.
Cracked/dented rims are a different story.
Yup - this particular rim in question later cracked, but none of the post-rebuild DB spokes broke.