Ken wrote:
> Hi,
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> My winter bike wheels (Normandy hubs and Mavic MA2 rims) have just come back from the wheel shop after a respoke with Italian stainless spokes to try and solve a clicking spoke issue. I note that the wheel builder has employed a rather unusual technique to lace the spokes and he calls this Spanish lace.
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> The Spanish lace appears to be a combination of radial spoke lacing and 2X spoke lacing (forward and reverse) on adjacent spokes with all the spoke heads being inserted from the inside face of the hub flange.
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> A picture of this hub and spoke weave can be found at
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> http://li6qpa.blu.livefilestore.com/
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> I wonder why the wheel builder has chosen to employ this lace pattern other than as a cure for 3X lacing boredom ?
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> Are any technical advantages or disadvantages known about this spoke lace pattern ?
It is also called crowsfoot lacing. It is handy to lace a 32 H Rohloff hub to a 48h rim, but in normal circumstances it is not something you do without a specific customers request. It is certainly a strange way to cure a simple problem
-- mvg
Marten Gerritsen
Kiel Windeweer
Netherlands