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- From: tim@computer.bri.hp.com (Tim Phipps)
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
- Subject: Re: Spoke Tension by hand
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 08:44:18 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Computer Peripherals Division, Bristol, UK
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- : Huh? I thought the idea of cross spoking is that the spokes touch.
- : Are you talking about radial spoking?
-
- No, but most cross spoked wheels have the outside spokes passing on the
- inside of the inside spokes at the last crossing point before the rim, at the
- other two (maybe less) cross points nearer the hub the outside spokes stay on
- the outside.
-
- I don't know why they do this, it adds work to building a rim, you have to
- bend the spokes and you can never get them straight again, you can't judge
- tension by plucking and if a spoke breaks the one it crosses goes slack as
- well.
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- Cheers,
- Phippo the Hippo.
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