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@Rik_Van_Looy
There's quite a bit of misinformation about Rev-X out there, basically they were banned from mass-start events for which you require 16 or more spokes cos they only have 8.
Since Spinergy were marketing this as a road racing wheel rather than a TT or pursuit wheel they stopped making them when the rules changed.
There are plenty of stories of the ones with carbon circlips failing catastrophically, and I've also read somewhere that rev-X's failed a "UCI Rupture test" I don't know whether this is true, but it's irrelevant as I believe the rupture test is for massed start wheels with more than 16 spokes.
If you are rocking rev-x's on your slave you want to have ones where the spoke tension is held with aluminium bits rather than carbon... early ones used carbon circlips to support the carbon blades, these are the ones that exploded. for later models they revised the hub and to a 3 piece aluminum design
Any wheel of non-traditional construction with 16 or more spokes is subjected to the scrutiny of the UCI before it can be used for massed start events.
These wheels are published here