Help identifying lacing pattern
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Help identifying lacing pattern
Excuse the rookie question, but can someone please confirm the lacing of this wheel (not mine), is it x3?:
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Ya think you could take a pic where the rotor isn't covering the area of interest?
Sometimes a bit of thought can be useful.
Sometimes a bit of thought can be useful.
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Lol I did not take the pic, it's from the web, plus an area of interest is subjective, it so happens mine and his aren't the same...
Here's another one, perhaps x2?:
Here's another one, perhaps x2?:
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It'd be quite difficult to lace 24 spokes more than 2X.
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Interesting that the wheel builder/manufacturer decided that interlacing the spokes was unnecessary. Might be nearly impossible to do, at that, given that hub design and the use of such heavy-gauge spokes.
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Seems like the kind of hub meant to be built with bladed spokes only (to facilitate interlacing)
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Straight pull wheels are often not interlaced. I build as many straight pull as J bend these days, and I do interlace when it doesn't cause too much distortion, but don't sweat it if you can't.
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Those spokes look way too beefy. That wheel will have no elasticity, and be prone to fatigue failure and spoke unwinding unless there's a hell of a lot of spoke tension.
...Hang on, that wheel is tiny. Is it less than 20"? Are those 14g spokes? Even so, butted would be nice, although I guess very hard to find in that length.
...Hang on, that wheel is tiny. Is it less than 20"? Are those 14g spokes? Even so, butted would be nice, although I guess very hard to find in that length.
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That looks like a Brompton Titanium Fork. It appears that the welds used for the add on disc brake have cracked.
You say Picture from the web, I hope they are explaining what they did wrong and are not planning to ride it.
You say Picture from the web, I hope they are explaining what they did wrong and are not planning to ride it.
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Yep a 16" wheel, likely a proof of concept, when I look at the owner's more recent pics that particular fork setup is not being used.
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Note that it says the hub manufacturer should give you the offset but more often than not, I have to determine it on my own. That means trying to determine where the center line of the hub passes through the post, inserting a spoke of a known length and measuring how much spoke protrudes.