In days gone by, spokes broke with some regulartity. With a high flange hub, the spokes could be changed quickly without removing the sprocket. - TFAnti-gravity said:
No, no, no!!! When you have a high flange hub with cutouts under the spoke holes, having the extreme perpendicular pulling stress from a radial-spoked spoke is the last thing you'd want. In fact, when you lace a high-flange cutout hub conventionally, you need to make sure that the spokes are facing in such a way that you won't 'tear-out' the flange at it's weakest point.Anti-gravity said:
Hmmm, well the flanges on mine are completely solid....Dave_Stohler said:
4x isn't necessarily any stronger. I'd stick with 3x, use 14-15 g spokes (NOT straight guage), and have your tension checked by a wheelbuilder of legendary status. It's my understanding that spokes break ONLY because of poor (low) tension (assuming you don't get a frame pump in a wheel).Tom Ligon said:
The wheelbuilder re-did that 4-cross rear, and he did it 4-cross. I have no idea why the wheel was that way originally (the front is 3-cross), but its a retro bike and that's how I left it. But my job I didn't "weave" the spokes at the outer crossing, thinking it made a mushy wheel. He wove the. We'll see if this one holds up better.SDizzle said:
Nope, but maybe I am. I know I read a study recently that talked about flange diameter vs stiffness, and just assumed it was this one without re-reading the whole thing for the reference. ...the more I think about it, though, the more sense it makes that a bigger flange should build a stiffer wheel. Maybe I made up my recollection entirely?!wim said:
I was under the impression that the high-flange advantage came from the lateral stiffness.wim said:
Correct - and the high flange hub did contribute to lateral wheel stiffness until the manufacturers started to cut away material to get the weight down. Probably for marketing reasons - it's easy for a customer to compare weights, but not so easy to run a hub flange stiffness test.Schecky said:
