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Old 05-31-13 | 07:00 PM
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Bikes: https://weightweenies.starbike.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=152015&p=1404231

You need pretty large flanges and a high spoke count for x4 to make sense. Otherwise your spokes go past the 90° mark, which is a bad thing not just because you have spokes going over the heads of others, but mainly because torsion on the wheel will actually cause the spoke tension to decrease.
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