Yeah. J bend requires the spoke holes rounding off, but they provide a tool to do it, straight pull needs a separate insert, and it’s a PROPER faff to do, (the Berd demo takes 3 mins to fit one spoke…) but it is doable
Quite useful just to have 1 or 2 to carry as spare spokes.
Not really, as it takes 2 days to bring the spokes to tension (you re tension them twice with 24 hrs between, during the build process (remember what I said about faff?). Berd recommend using a normal spoke, should you break one out in the wild.
I won’t be building them I’m afraid, I have neither the knowledge, patience, nor willingness to learn how to build wheels on these… Stif have brought someone in specially for me 😊. Will report back on how they ride though!