Asking me to measure width between holes of the rim. The diagram shown is not really making sense to me and I’m not sure what I am supposed to be measuring for this. Could someone explain to me how to measure this?
by jesuselcapitan
Asking me to measure width between holes of the rim. The diagram shown is not really making sense to me and I’m not sure what I am supposed to be measuring for this. Could someone explain to me how to measure this?
by jesuselcapitan
4 Comments
This really only applies to fat bike rims like: [https://www.sefiles.net/merchant/2194/images/large/WampaFront.jpg](https://www.sefiles.net/merchant/2194/images/large/WampaFront.jpg) where the spoke holes are not all essentially in line with each other.
Cut your wheel in half. U now have two moon shapes. Now look at the area of the rim that was cut.
If the distance is zero, enter zero. Some rims have offset holes to make the spokes closer to each other in length.
It’ll make no difference with a rhino lite, remember, the spokes are making a giant triangle. The hypotenuse and length are really long while the base is all of 40-50mm, the change in width of that base by a mm or 2 (the offset of the holes moves the effective centerline of the hub and thus changes the base) will have a .1-.2mm change in the length of the spoke. The result is negligible and can be ignored. As others mentioned this is for fat bikes. They can have hubs more like 190mm with a 25mm gap between the spoke holes at the rim, this changes things a lot.