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Who wants to build some twisted spoke wheels for me? :-)

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fugazi:
Haven't seen twist lacing for years  :daumenhoch: I had a set of wheels done in the 90's that Cyclesport (Bmxcity) built, and I think They used to offer Prolite wheels laced like it as well.
Shouldn't be too hard to do Yourself, working out spoke length might be a headache though?!

Taipan:
I had a wheel like that a while back,I thought it was fooked when I got it? would'nt know where to start to lace one of those but i think they look really cool :daumenhoch:

SaMAlex:

I have a bike with a twist laced wheel. Its very 90s! haha.

The theory is since the spokes are supported in the middle, they are effectively shorter, so stiffer. The problem is that if you snap one spoke, you lose the tension in 2 spokes.

They use the same length spokes as normal lacing. The best way is to build it up normal and then go back and swap round the pairs of spokes before tensioning up the wheel.

fugazi:
Brilliant way of explaining it Alex, I could never work out how it was done, but now You've said it I can picture it, Awesome  :daumenhoch:

GavinDavis:
I read somewhere recently that if your building a wheel with twist spokes you need to use spokes that are 10mm longer than the ones you remove?  Twisting them in the right place I would have thought is gonna be a whole different ball game though?

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