Cheapest place for buying Black DB Spokes

elation

Planning on building a set of wheels for CX bike (Hope EVO hubs with Mavic Open Pro rims) and been looking for some good quality double butted spokes (Sapim ,DT Swiss ) in black without paying the earth..
Anybody know where?

schweiz

Try http://www.cyclesportsuk.co.uk/

ugo.santalucia

I normally buy DT from CRC, silver ones are cheaper and the story about the black ones being more corrosion resistant largely a myth... spokes fail for fatigue and not for corrosion
You can get ACI DB much cheaper at cyclebasket... they are good spokes

huuregeil

Starbike is excellent, good prices, and one of the few places you can buy e.g. cx-rays singly.

Black spoke and corrosion... this applies to alu nipples from what I can gather. Anyway, black is faster ;-)

ugo.santalucia

huuregeil wrote:

Starbike is excellent, good prices, and one of the few places you can buy e.g. cx-rays singly.

Black spoke and corrosion... this applies to alu nipples from what I can gather. Anyway, black is faster ;-)

Starbike is cheap, but it charges a lot for the international delivery, only worth if combined with some big item

schweiz

ugo.santalucia wrote:

I normally buy DT from CRC, silver ones are cheaper and the story about the black ones being more corrosion resistant largely a myth... spokes fail for fatigue and not for corrosion
You can get ACI DB much cheaper at cyclebasket... they are good spokes

CRC only sell 36 spokes of the same length, so if you're building a rear wheel you need to buy 72 spokes!! I've just built a 32h front and rear. I asked for 54 x 292 mm and 18 x 290 mm but they sent 36 of one and 36 of the other. They were very good about it though and just sent me another 36 292 mm FOC so now I have 24 spare 292 mm and 20 spare 290 mm spokes!!