A 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-tr

A 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.