Flexible spokes are showing up beneath elite racers. Here’s what happened when I rode them through an XC season.

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A photo of Saturn taken by the Hubble Telescope last October. Small dark marks called ring spokes are visible on the planet's left side, just inside the widest black band of space between rings. NASA, ...

Saturn is famous for its beautiful rings, but these rings have a strange feature: “spokes” which appear intermittently. These spots in the rings can be light or dark and can look like blobs or like ...

First they reinvented the wheel. Now they’re rethinking the spoke. And all to save a few tenths of a gram. When it comes to improving bicycle performance, weight is crucial. With so many parts, ...

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Rebuilding spoke wheels is one of the rights of passage in the “custovation”* of an old bike. That convoluted three-dimensional puzzle with an alloy hub at the center of a spider web of steel, wrapped ...

Carbon spokes are nothing new. First introduced by German manufacturer Lightweight in 1994 with the first fully carbon wheel, carbon spokes claimed their first Tour de France win in 1997. From then ...