Re: [CR]Wheel building advice

(Example: Production Builders:LeJeune)

From: "John Drake" <jdrake@sev.org>
To: "Syke - Deranged Few M/C" <sykerocker@yahoo.com>, "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <20060210022007.86585.qmail@web33908.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Wheel building advice
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 22:16:19 -0500
reply-type=original

Syke, the maximum cross for 28h & 32h is 3x

John Drake
Sylvania, OH


----- Original Message -----
From: Syke - Deranged Few M/C
To: Classic Rendezvous
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 9:20 PM
Subject: [CR]Wheel building advice



> I'm toying with building a set of wheels out of the 28 hole Super Champion
> tubular rims that I picked up at Westchester this past weekend. Hubs, for
> the moment are undecided, they may be period or I may do some playing with
> modern.
>
> In the past, I've always built 3-cross wheels. Given that I'm not
> building 36-spoke wheels this time and plan on using them for road work
> (on a very light bike, needless to say), is there a strength advantage to
> building 4-cross wheels?
>
> George R. "Syke" Paczolt
> Montpelier, VA
>
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