Originally Posted by
mihael
Thanks, torger and others, this thread has been super helpful.
Can someone confirm that entering 2.083 cross (short spokes) and 2.25 (long spokes) into a spoke calculator would give me the exact spoke lengths for this pattern?
At least this is what I get when I follow the Sheldon Brown article and replace the 5° from the formula with 2.5° (short spokes) and 7.5° (long spokes).I am relatively sure about it, but it would be great to have a second opinion before I buy anything. Thanks!
I have built the wheels, more about them here:
Anyone racing with 24 spoke wheels? (Low spoke count)
They seem to perform well and I didn't have any issues tensioning the wheel. I didn't get that much time to ride them though (only made 150 km or so on them), and now it's winter here.
I used a CAD software to make the drawings, not a spoke calculator, so I can unfortunately not answer the question. Mixing spoke lengths etc make them quite tricky to build and easy to mess up, so actually taking some time and make a CAD drawing to get a deeper understanding what's going on can be a good idea.