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Performance Forte Gemini vs Alex R500 wheels

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I bought my bike at Performance. The stock wheels were Alex R500. I had 11 spokes break, one about every 75 miles. Finally I took the wheels back to Performance to ask them to respoke the entire wheel. The original spokes were 1.8mm and I felt they were breaking either because they were too thin or were defective steel. I had taken a look at Fuji bikes which also had Alex R500 wheels and they were using 2.0 mm spokes.

Performance agreed there was a problem and replaced the wheels with their own brand, Forte Gemini. The spoking is a little different, groups of twos. Are the Gemini's good wheels? Are they equivalent or better than the Alex R500? Is having these funky group of two spokes better or just different?
 
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