Weight-Weenie Fixed Hillclimb Bike

Interesting article.

Why, then, don’t they use more spokes? Two words – fashion and weight. Fewer spokes look cool, and look better on-paper to the gram counters. I agreed to keep any official comments off-the-record from all manufacturers in this regard… but all of them had similar answers - sex sells.

Low spoke count is for the aeros no? 18 butted spokes are quicker than 20 bladed etc so spoke count clearly matters.

Thread hijack (maybe) over :-)