Originally Posted by
rpenmanparker
Another thought: you are "lacing" the spokes, right? That is you are crossing three spokes on the same side of the flange as you start and the fourth one on the other side of the spoke/flange. Or put another way: over, over, over, under or under, under, under, over? That interlacing will take up a little length.
That's the way I tried it the first time so I thought I would do 4 Cross with no interlacing. I saw that it was that way on my '63 Hercules. I just looked at the wheel again and the long spokes are all on one side.....