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I interpret the lack of mention of rider weight or wheel usage as 'he doesn't think these things are relevant'.
Your interpretation is wrong, service conditions are highly relevant, but as you surmise not because a spoke is ever likely to fail by simple one-cycle overload exceeding its ultimate tensile strength, but because the extremes of the fatiguing cycle are greater under severe conditions.
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I'm not sure there's anywhere that he says specifically "spokes don't break because the rider is too heavy" or anything but it's more that he does talk in detail/at length about the aforementioned other reasons why spokes break so as a reader I interpret the lack of mention of rider weight or wheel usage as 'he doesn't think these things are relevant'.