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@dancing james
i think its actually good advice
there seem to be about 10 spoks on rotation in london
people buy them because they think they look cool, and then come up with all kinds of spurious excuses as to why they want one and why its good on their bike. this happens whilst their friends call them a hipster twat for buying something that they think looks cool but actually worsens the handling and performance of their bike
after a couple of months the owners then sell the wheel (frequently for about what they paid for it) and then admit to all their friends that the spok was shit, but they thought it looked cool and after a while the aesthetic gain was not worth the performance loss