At 09:12 PM 1/14/2007, RDF1249@aol.com wrote:
>I plan to build a pair of them up with a typical older
>british hubset in 32/40, skipping every 5th spoke on each side of
>the rear hub. How
>to figure the spoke lengths, that is the puzzle. I deduced there are four
>different lengths required, for each of the four positions in one section. I
>suppose one could draw this in 3D CAD and just have the program
>figure out the
>spoke lengths, but I wonder if one of you math whizzes can come up with an
>algorithm that works, or maybe just a simple common sense solution.
I too would be interested in such an algorithm. I want to lace 40h hubs to 36h rims.
Mark Stonich
Minneapolis Minnesota
http://bikesmithdesign.com
http://mnhpva.org