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Interesting, I have stood next to a World Cup winning downhiller begging his mechanic to increase tension in his wheels beyond where the mechanic was happy so h
by jimnotgym 5y ago
Interesting, I have stood next to a World Cup winning downhiller begging his mechanic to increase tension in his wheels beyond where the mechanic was happy so his wheels would survive longer. He thought this 'compliance' stuff was bs, and he liked that I agreed with him (hence the conversation). This was a couple of years ago mind, but I would be suprised if it had really changed.
- anthomtb 5y agoA few years back Mike Levy from Pinkbike rode Troy Brosnan's bike and made note of how little tension was in the spokes: https://www.pinkbike.com/news/riding-troy-brosnans-world-cup-dh-bike-crankworx-whistler-2018.html https://www.pinkbike.com/news/riding-troy-brosnans-world-cup.... Paul Aston (World Cup pack fill, former Pinkbike journalist) also made note of experimenting with extremely low tension and implied it worked pretty well: https://www.downtimepodcast.com/paul-aston-2021/ https://www.downtimepodcast.com/paul-aston-2021/ Really though, where you have the resources to experiment with something like spoke tension, you are likely to end up with a couple outliers.