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- From: whalen@starch.enet.dec.com (Rich Whalen)
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
- Subject: Re: Spoke Tension by hand
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.135114.10198@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 13:51:14 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.33520.17676@kei.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1jlnp2INNebi@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
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- Reply-To: whalen@starch.enet.dec.com (Rich Whalen)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Shrewsbury, MA
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- In article <1jlnp2INNebi@hpscit.sc.hp.com>, tim@computer.bri.hp.com (Tim
- Phipps) writes:
- |>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
- |>Reply-To: tim%hpcpbla.bri.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
- |>
- |>: 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.
-
- The crossing on the inside by the outside spokes is called "lacing". From
- what I've read is helps support the other spokes. It probably serves to
- transfer sideways load from one spoke to another and therefore distributing
- it better over the entire wheel. If you look at a "standard" 3-cross wheel
- you'll see that the two spokes that are laced at the outer most crossing
- are joined to the rim quite some distance from each other.
-
- |>
- |>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.
- |>
- |>Cheers,
- |>Phippo the Hippo.
- |>
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