Chuck brings up a good point on Robergel Trois Etoile spokes. They break too readily and best avoided for restorations.
Joe Bender-Zanoni Great Notch, NJ
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 10:06 PM Subject: Now: DT spokes Was: sdrawkcab R (was:Re: Robergel spoke heads,was [CR]PEUGEOT "trophy" wheel...
> Joe Bender-Zanoni wrote:
> >
> > In th US market I wonder when DT appeared?
> >
> > I don't remember them when I left the bike biz in 1980.
>
>
> My recollection: around 1976 I saw an article by Bill McCready (owner
> of Bud's Bike Shop in Claremont, CA and Santana tandems) about DT
> stainless spokes and some tensile testing he had had done (by Caltech?)
> on all the currently available spokes. The DTs tested the best and I
> switched to them for my personal wheelbuilding because I was really
> unhappy with Robergels.
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, Southern California
>
> .