I saw this wheel for sale on Ebay, and the wheel lacing looks very weird to me. Some of the spokes have an odd angle out of the nipple. Was it built correctly?
by bikerjen
I saw this wheel for sale on Ebay, and the wheel lacing looks very weird to me. Some of the spokes have an odd angle out of the nipple. Was it built correctly?
by bikerjen
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~~That’s a 4 cross pattern. Each spoke crosses four other spokes instead of the normal three (or at least that’s what it looks like from the picture). Nothing to worry about, it doesn’t have any significant downside generally except on some hubs where such a cross would lead to a spoke obscuring the hole next to it due to the angle in which it exits the hub. Not this case though.~~
Edit: looked at the pic in the cell phone and didn’t see clearly the crossing. Effectively, it’s a standar 3 cross pattern, looks weird because of the large hub.
That wheel is not laced properly at all. You can see some of the spokes are bent, deformed. I would not use that wheel without getting it relaced.
There are some spokes entering the nipple on the rim at a rather extreme angle. Granted, they won’t always be straight in, but some of them are angled way too much.
It’s 3 cross.
https://preview.redd.it/03kpe6br11pg1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=55fc3a533c9137ef749a8676cff9a82bf674fac9
The light blue spoke here touches the green lead spoke, and is routed correctly (on top).
The one thing possibly messing with the perspective is rear wheels usually have the non drive side lead spokes point opposite of wheel travel, but this one they point in the direction is travel.
The one who laced the wheel have had to twist it a lot for the spoke length to match. This is not properly done as you see many are bent in order to fit.
I would redo everything from scratch, see if maybe he messed up somehow.