BV2

The amount of mind fuckery in these dyneema spoke threads is unbelievable. This shit is not new cutting edge technology. Its just a simple splice. Or a glorified Chinese finger trap. Everything stretches, everything. The soft spring feel or more compliance that guys say they feel is the dyneema stretching more than the previous alloy spokes they were riding. Dyneema stretches more than lets say rod metal spoke. Dyneema is plenty strong, just like alloy there are different grades and build methods resulting in different characteristics. What Berd have done is they have figured out exactly how long the bury needs to be in order to get the lengths right. It takes time to splice each end of the spoke. As far as I know there are no machines that "splice" so each of these spokes is getting built by hand. You guys comparing the raw material cost are not taking into account the time it takes to turn them into a spoke. Dyneema is very chafe resistant your stick in wheel would destroy a alloy spoke wheel just as fast maybe faster. Blasting through shale or obsidian rock is a different story. The sharp edges of that type of rock could easily damage a dyneema spoke, but honestly I think the same impact would damage an alloy spoke. the prep on the hubs needs to be really good. I think that we can all hopefully agree that modern bicycle wheel spokes operate under tension and not compression. This shit aint rocket science.