DT Champion 1.8 (15ga)

Thank you to the manufacturer (in Switzerland) for these excellent spokes. Fits my bike perfectly and high quality stainless steel. Paid for itself after two spokes broke. I also bought a special wrench to take off my back wheel hub so I could replace the spokes on the hub side. I mark the spoke location on the wheel with a small Sharpie mark then put on the spoke and tighten it up with a spoke wrench I bought from Amazon too until it spins straight again. Thank you to Amazon for carrying this product. I paid a little more for these Swiss spokes (vs. the ones made in China) since I knew the quality was outstanding of the DT Champions.

I'll admit, I'm not using these for bike tires. Instead, I created an entire inventory system, with storage tubs, garden stakes, manila envelopes, and these wonderful bike spikes used to suspend the manila envelopes from the garden stakes. For not much more than the cost of buying one double drawer wide filing cabinet, I have the equivalent of 7 of them. All made possible by bicycle spokes that can actually handle weight without bending, plus have the ends bent to hold them onto my "rails" of garden stakes. I store over 500 different products for an eCommerce store - the system is easy to use and easy to expand. I probably have room for another 500 products (jewelry).

Items arrived safely and quickly.These shiny, new, stronger spokes just saved me on one of my older road bikes: ....a 1986 Raleigh Technium.In this particular instance, I had a rear spoke break at the bend. It wasn't even noticeable except for the noise, and the fact that my wheel immediately went out of true.This was a rear wheel, on the cassette side.I watched YouTube videos on how to remove the cassette and freewheel, and found out that I needed a removal tool.I got the tool from Amazon.com as well.It all worked out, and I have no worries about the new spoke.....And there are so many spokes in the box, that I am set for quite awhile.

Sweet spokes. Good deal. They even give you an extra one and a couple of extra nips. That's enough for 3 wheels even if you're building 2 32s and a 36. Straight gauge of course, so they're heavier but you pretty much get a bombproof wheel if you go with double-wall eyeleted rims and put some good well-balanced tension to work for your riding pleasure. Hard to find a better deal without a QBP wholesale account... You may have also noticed it's a pain in the ass to shop for components on Amazon. They run you through the swamp of a million irrelevant parts instead of letting you specify what you Don't want.

I contacted the seller and he says that they haven't sold them with nipples for years even thought it clears says it in the title. If you don't need nipples they work fine. So for any one that gets nipple are probably getting old stock which is fine but they need to change the description.

Used these spokes to rebuild a wheel I use for commuting. Wanted good quality and reliability, but did not want to get carried away with price. They are working just fine. You get nipples in the box with the spokes, so you don't have to buy these separately. I would buy this brand again.

Great spokes. These are better than come with a typical bike sold today as original equipment.These days bike repair shops charge $25 -$35 to change a broken spoke, often saying the need to "true the wheel". One spoke rarely requires much (or any!) adjustments to true the wheel. Just put the new spoke in and tighten it up about as much as the others. There are online videos to show you how to do all this. You can do it and save money and time. I got them for about 50 cents per spoke, but regular price is still well under $1 per spoke. Also, once spokes start to break it's not going to be one or two and then stop.

DT Swiss is my go-to brand for spokes. These are just the basic straight gauge, and I do prefer double butted when available (affordable) due to the better strength-to-weight ratio, but straight gauge DT has never let me down. I've wrecked wheels, failed rims, and broken alloy nipples, but never had a material failure of the DT spoke itself. Considering the flotsam of broken bike parts that I have left in my wake, this complete lack of critical failure for such a common part is something to be noted.If you want to talk about broken spokes, look at any of the machine built wheels coming out of Asia, and I'm lucky if I get one season before I have to rebuild the whole wheel with (you guessed it) DT Swiss straight gauge spokes...