Received my Sapim 12/13g spokes and built a wheel around my Atom drum brake hub. It was a bit of an adventure because those spokes are large and in charge! noglider might have had a good point about building 2x around such a large flange, because it would reduce the angle that the nipples leave the rim. We’ll just see how it holds up!



If it fails, I’ll have to order custom spokes in the 240ish length, so I’m hoping it doesn’t come to that. Out of the box, these were bent a bit shy of 90 degrees, so I drilled a 3mm hole in a piece of steel, and corrected them a bit, so the hub flange didn’t take that stress.




It was a chore getting the tensionometer readings on these, but I got things where the drive side nipples felt like they didn’t want to get a whole lot tighter, then went around and got tension as even as possible. We’ll see!