Re: Double-butted spokes?

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From: Chris Malcolm
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 13:20

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In article <1d7onvINNnpt@skat.usc.edu> cjz@skat.usc.edu (Claude Zinngrabe) writes:

|Hello netters!!!  I'm looking for relatively inexpensive ways to shed
|weight from my road bike.  It's a Cannondale (no flames PLEASE!)
|Racing 600 (3.0 frameset) and I've done all I can think of, but
|someone suggested that I rebuild my wheels using double-butted spokes.
|Does any one know how much (percentages, please) this will shave from
|my wheels?

Don't forget the rider. You'ld save more weight by having a crap.
-- 
Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh          +44 (0)31 650 3085
Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK                DoD #205

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From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
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Subject: Re: Double-butted spokes?
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Date: 4 Nov 92 13:20:08 GMT
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