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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: steve69 on December 29, 2009, 05:37 PM

Title: Spokes ?
Post by: steve69 on December 29, 2009, 05:37 PM

How do you tell the difference between single and double butted spokes??

Were black spokes Old School??  Had coloured (red, blue, gold) spokes back in the day on some of my wheels but never black, was that because they weren't around? I don't remember.

Please tell :)

Title: Re: Spokes ?
Post by: MartyC on December 30, 2009, 08:22 AM

Single Butted spokes are fat at one end thin at the other and double butted are fat at both ends and thin in the middle.  Black spokes were around bitd, not a popular choice but they were around  :daumenhoch:.

Title: Re: Spokes ?
Post by: steve69 on December 30, 2009, 01:30 PM

Cheers Marty, faith has been restored, it's good to see somebody knows what they're talking about ;)

Title: Re: Spokes ?
Post by: steve69 on December 30, 2009, 06:14 PM

Just had a look at the spokes....

They're 2mm straight (no tapered ends), what are they known as ??? (other than s**t)

None the wiser :(

Title: Re: Spokes ?
Post by: MartyC on December 31, 2009, 08:29 AM

Quote from: steve69 on December 30, 2009, 06:14 PM

Just had a look at the spokes....

They're 2mm straight (no tapered ends), what are they known as ??? (other than s**t)

None the wiser :(

They are known as Plain Gauge spokes  :daumenhoch: