Wheelbuilding / Wheel Building / Wheel build help

You are reading a single comment by @noBlakes and its replies. Click here to read the full conversation.

•

plxarc
So I'm getting the parts together for a wheel build, entered all the details into https://leonard.io/edd/ and got told this as the answer, and got told the below as my answer.
Couple of questions if anyone would be able to help me:
- Do the spoke lengths look right? I'm building them 3 cross so I only need spokes that are 288.5/ 289.7 / 288.4 / 287.3 right? I'm confused as they all seem very similar in length and I was told there would normally be a greater difference.
- Is it better for me to round the lengths up or down - could I get away with only getting 288mm spokes?
Thanks!

•

noBlakes in reply to @plxarc

the fact you're going 3x with 36 spokes makes it seem about right. But double check with the dt swiss calculator, it uses the same calculator as the edd one but also tells you recommended spoke length (as in not 289.7, but 288), double check you've got measurements right too, but all seems about right

About

@noBlakes started