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it’s going to have a disc brake on it so the spokes will be dealing with a lot of forces.
Why does everyone think dick breaks give the spokes a hard time? 🤔
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dick breaks
And thus they shall ever more be referred to as.
They must get a harder time in a dick breaked wheel than a rim braked one no? Not saying too hard a time, well within what they can cope with, but you are braking the hub and the forward momentum of bike and rider and the friction between the tyre and the ground are trying to make the rim rotate (or rather, continue rotating) and you are relying on the spokes to stop that. Seems like that is asking more of spokes than on a rim braked wheel where the brake acts upon the rotation (rotating mass?) directly.
If the spokes on a dick breaked wheel deal with no more forces than a rim braked wheel, why aren't radially spoked dick break front wheels a thing?
M_V
Do your calculation as normal for 2 cross, 3cross etc and then add 2mm to the spoke length for each twist.
Two twists needed to keep the spokes going into the holes they would go to normally. A single twist would have the twisted spokes going into each other’s holes if you see what I mean?
You built it just just like you would normally but instead of lacing over, over, under, you go over, over, twist.
For that 26” wheel and for a 27.5” one I did recently I put in all my inbound spokes on both flanges then just twist the outbound ones around them. For the 20” one I built for my folder I had to take the nipple off each each inbound spoke as I got to the relevant outbound one and twist them around each other.
Not sure how well this one will last, it’s going to have a disc brake on it so the spokes will be dealing with a lot of forces. The 20” one for my folder is a rear, with a coaster brake and it creaks a bit.