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I think you are barking at the wrong tree. Your spoke didn't fail because of the enforced bend... fatigue lines are not something you necessarily see by naked eye on a 2 mm section of steel... but fatigue it was... any failure which is not due to excessive stress is fatigue. Folks have been lacing 24 H 2 cross for decades without any issue. I suspect your wheel has too low tension, which is the cause of spoke failure 90% of the times.
If you don't interlace, you lose a significant amount of stiffness... I have tried once for curiosity and the wheel was literally made of cheese. Factory wheels get away with that by hub design (it's my guess).
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Factory wheels get away with that by hub design (it's my guess).
My guess is that it's really the rims. Interlacing transfers loads from one spoke to another, but if the rim is very stiff then the rim itself will be better at spreading localised loads among multiple spokes.
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Thanks for the input. Do you really think removing the interlacing will make a difference to wheel stiffness if its only for the NDS?
Also, can you explain how too low a tension can lead to failure? I thought that low tensions lead to spokes getting looser/unwinding all together.
gbj_tester
Hovis
Would it be a sin to not cross over (interlace?) the spokes for a rear wheel NDS? My logic being, some people lace these radial anyway so do you really need the cross? (trying to address the issue a few posts back...)