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@SwissChap
Yeah this situation is a bit more complicated than just a single equation. If you actually want to understand all the forces in play, you need to draw a free body diagram of the whole situation - and the specific force acting on one spoke is not that easy to determine even then. That's with making the assumption that a spoke can only take tension and no compression: otherwise it's more complicated still.