Did you build the wheels yourself?
Do you have 3 cross lacing on the spooks?
Generally spooks are different length to allow for hub offset.
do you have different length spooks for each side?
did you use a wheel truing fixture to center your hub/rim?

--- In bentechriders@yahoogroups.com, "Russell Allen Zech"
<raz711@...> wrote:
>
> --- In bentechriders@yahoogroups.com, "Phil Prosser" <p.prosser@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In bentechriders@yahoogroups.com, "Russell Allen Zech"
> > <raz711@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > I have been having troubles with non-drive side spoke failures on
> > > the rear wheel of my Infinity LWB. I was hoping that someone here
> > > might have some advice. They failed on the 27" stock wheel, they
> > > evenutally failed on a used 700c wheel (concave Winemann off of a
> > > Trek 360)and again after I had it relaced.They have failed on a
> > > brand new Sun CR-18 with Wheelsmith DT spokes and an Ultegra hub
> > > that I just had built. The spokes are failiing at the bend right
> at
> > > the hub.
> >
> > We need to know more about you and about the wheels - it does sound
> > like you're hard on them.
>
> Maybe but my riding is stricly road riding.
>
>
> Recumbent rear wheels can take a beating
> > because on some bikes they take most of the rider's weight,
>
> 70% in the case of my Infinity
>
> If the rider's a little heavy
>
> I weigh 230 lbs.
>
> > well, rear wheels need to be pretty beefy.
>
> The wheel I had built, a Sun CR18 36 wholes with Ultegra hub and 14
> gauge Wheelsmith DT spokes is for all intents and purposes a tandem
> wheel.
>
>
> > The bend in the spoke near the hub is its weakest point. Sometimes
> > spokes fail here because they're not a good fit in the hole in the
> > hub.
>
> Standard hub and standard spokes should be a match.
>
> > You could also try more spokes. Heavy touring bikes and tandems
> used
> > sometimes have 40 or even 48 spokes.
>
> These hubs are 140-160 mm wide. My rear frame width is only 130mm.
>
>
> >it seems one of those jobs that women might be better
>
> OUCH, AND I THOUGHT I WAS PI!
>
> Russell
>