Originally Posted by
maddog34
i re-read your top post... so... thespokes were tightened until the ran out of threads, and were still way too loose, right?
are you certain you laced the wheel correctly? check again, even if "certain", ok?
i just measured a A 7400 front, with open pro rim... came up with @ 299 actually tensioned length... so it might have stretched a bit under tension... and no, i'm not going to remove a spoke to check untensioned length, since the wheel is dead on right now... ;-) it's a 36 spoke, but that won't vary the length much, i'd think....
does anyone know how much, if any, spoke lengths change when lacing less spokes?
No - wouldn't expect you to delace your wheel
Yes, till I ran out of thread. Length changes quite a bit from 36 to 28 - since the spokes are spaced out more, they have to be longer to reach. I would think if anything yours would be shorter. Bike shop checked my lacing after and agreed they were too long. But they came up with the same thing for spoke length! Measured the spokes as well. Now I'm even more puzzled. Are yours 3 cross laced?