[CR] spoke incident

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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:40:44 -0600
Thread-Topic: [CR] spoke incident
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From: "John Hurley" <JHurley@jdabrams.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Cc: Jon@FAI.US
Subject: [CR] spoke incident

Jon Crate wrote:

"What is the trick to lace a replacement spoke among its peers without bending the heck out of it?"

Is this one thing in favor of non-interlaced spokes? The wheels on my PX have 3-cross spoking, but the spokes do not touch each other. I would think this would make spoke replacement easier, but don't know since I've never broken one on this bike. This is a 36-spoke deep box section Rigida clincher rim with straight 14 gage spokes, so it's a bit overbuilt for me.

Can anyone expound on why spokes are interlaced?

John "plain-spokin" Hurley
Austin, Texas, USA