3.5x?
I guess it could be 2x + 4x
It's not a normal pattern, but it works. The leading spokes are laced with 2x length and the trailing are laced with 4x. There's not a lot of benefit to this type of lacing. If anything, I guess the trailing spokes, being more tangent, fair better against torque, but that's about it.
There is also crow's foot lacing, but it still requires 3x length spokes, just 1/3 less
Yet another option is 3 leading, 3 trailing, but this still requires 3x length spokes all around.
Last edited by AEO; 04-10-12 at 12:10 PM.