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What causes spokes to fail at the nipple with the break occurring right at the bottom of the threads?
This is my second factory built set of wheels with same "issue" (hello Powertap); the two sets I've had handbuilt from scratch have been bomb-proof but I snapped a NDS spoke on these disc 29er Charge stock wheels last night
I replaced the spoke at 6am this morning, retensioning + trued with Park TS-2 + tensiometer (tension was all over the place) and then on way home tonight poing goes a DS spoke exactly the same way.