Originally Posted by
carpediemracing
Not sure on the spokes. If you have MS Excel, there's an excellent spoke length calculator available online. You just have to remember to change the spoke count from 32 to 16 to calculate the right and left side lengths.
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/rinard/spocalc.htm
Won't go. You cannot have a balanced 24-32 wheel with normal crossing to have even spoke lengths. The variences are like +- 3mm for a two cross.
The closest you'll get is to go "crow's foot", which will leave you to 2 different spoke lengths (instead of 3)... but doing it this way is essencially like going 16 spokes (in the rear wheel!), only adding on 8 radial ones to aid the lateral stiffness. Not too sure about this configuration to withstand a standing start...