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Bike polo on shamals?!?!....What kind of poncey, left-leaning, non-contact, non-competitive game are you guys playing???...where someone would happily risk expensive 16 spoke race wheels??? still they look good right.
As I remember back when Shamals were reasonably trendy with real bike racers, there were quite a few incidents reported in the comic of them collapsing during races (often criteriums) and they fell out of favour, not long after the UCI introduced regulations on non-standard wheels....it's possible the UCI wwas prompted to do this specifically coz of Shamals failings, interestingly they don't appear on this list:
http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/News/2003/july/25_wheels.shtml
Someone lent me a pair for Good Friday once, they were smooth and fast I have to say, but not so hot on acceleration.