You are reading a single comment by @thecycleclinic and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@thecycleclinic
Spoke tension does not affect stiffness edscoble. low spoke tension does however affect the ammount of side load that can be applied before spokes go slack. when this happens at low load it means your wheels are not very stiff but increasing the spoke tension does not alter the stiffness in N/mm but it does raise the ammount of load that has to be applied before spokes go slack. This is often confused with spoke tension affecting tension. I can see why the confusion results.