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Any experience about radially-laced hub flanges actually breaking?
Most hub manufacturers forbid lacing spokes radially, mostly because there is less material in the radial direction away from a flange hole than in the standard 3-cross, tangential lacing.
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Can I lace my hub with all inward or outward facing spoke heads?
It seems conventional wisdom says to alternate inward vs outward spoke heads going around the flange when lacing a wheel, like this:
However, I'm wondering what the reason for this is, and if it ...
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How to build a wheel
I'm in the planning stage of building a new bike. This will be a light road bike for city runs and transport. For racing I have other bikes.
I'd like to build the bike from ground up by assembling ...
