The first thing you’ll notice about any of the Berd wheelsets is that the spokes are strings. Floppy as a shoelace when not built into a wheel, rigid like metal when in use.
Berd’s PolyLight spokes may not feel particularly technical at first glance, but there’s more than meets the eye. Their fibrous material is an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene, also known as Dyneema®, and it brings impressive claims:
