Originally Posted by
readygetsetBen
Hello
I’m looking into building up my first wheel. It’s a job I’ll be doing out of necessity as I want to reuse a rim but not a hub. I’m building up a rear wheel, I could go singlespeed but I really want to go coaster brake. I also don’t want to do a run of the mill three cross lacing pattern.
The rim is 36 or 32 hole (I haven’t counted and it’s at the co op) and I’d like to build it up as a three lead three trail coaster brake rear wheel. I’m wondering if anyone has any warnings regarding structural integrity. If so, does anyone have any other spoke patterns that are alternative to three cross that would be suitable for a coaster brake (or at least single speed if that makes much of a difference) wheel?
It’ll be a 650A rim which should hopefully help over a larger rim I’d think but yeah any advice is appreciated!
Uh - 32 spokes isn't divisible by 6 so that's not going to work. Getting the spoke length right is probably the most important decision you'll make in building your first wheel. There are lots of computer spoke calculators but I don't think I've seen one for 3 leading/3 trailing. Reusing an old rim is probably going to make the tension and truing process a lot harder than it would be otherwise.
Boreing is sometimes under appreciated. A long road trip without incident is boring but good. I think that laceing a boring bicycle wheel for your first attempt is more likely to turn out good.