Re: [CR]Wheel building advice

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Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:46:25 -0500
From: <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Wheel building advice
In-reply-to: <20060210022007.86585.qmail@web33908.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
To: Syke - Deranged Few M/C <sykerocker@yahoo.com>
References: <20060210022007.86585.qmail@web33908.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
cc: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

Not with 28 hole, think about it considering that it is a marginal idea at 36 hole. Go with 3X.

Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Hotch, NJ


----- Original Message -----
From: Syke - Deranged Few M/C
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:20:00 -0000
Subject: [CR]Wheel building advice


> I'm toying with building a set of wheels out of the 28 hole Super

\r?\n> Champion tubular rims that I picked up at Westchester this past

\r?\n> weekend. Hubs, for the moment are undecided, they may be period or

\r?\n> I may do some playing with modern.

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\r?\n> In the past, I've always built 3-cross wheels. Given that I'm

\r?\n> not building 36-spoke wheels this time and plan on using them for

\r?\n> road work (on a very light bike, needless to say), is there a

\r?\n> strength advantage to building 4-cross wheels?

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\r?\n> George R. "Syke" Paczolt

\r?\n> Montpelier, VA

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