Sounds pretty silly to me... maybe you could invent a pattern where 1/4 of the spokes on each side went the other way, but that still wouldn't be a real good idea.
Originally Posted by
urbanknight
True. I didn't even realize spokes crossed each other until I started racing and paying attention to which equipment I was buying.
I would have been about five.
But then, I'm forever being puzzled by people's mechanical blindness... how anyone can look at almost any part of something as simple as a bike and not immediately understand how it works is beyond me.