Originally Posted by
onespeedbiker
Lets see Mr Rabbit gave you the lengths for the "magic" spoke, then I reinforced that with a pmail, but you ignored all the advice from this site because a friend said spokes 2-4 mm too long would work. I believe this is refereed to as setting oneself up for failure..
I have a set of wheels for another bike where the dumb a$$ who laced it did not have a spoke cutter and used longer spokes and it works. I had time to burn and spokes to throw away. My 93 year old friend would say it was free and did not cost anything to try it. I will confirm later with Mr. Rabbit about the "magic" size spoke. Thanks for the reply and help