Originally Posted by
Duragrouch
No, I didn't mean spiral on one side, and opposite spiral on the other side. I meant trailing and leading spokes on both sides, just not crossing.
When thinking about tension structures, you have to consider the line of action, rather than the actual part.
So, those spokes do cross operationally, but it happens within the shell rather than beyond, where the spokes actually are.
By example if you want to consider torque implications on a typical 3x32h wheel, you'd measure the radius at a right angle to where the spoke would pass even though it ends before that.
If i were asked (though nobody ever would) to name the pattern, I'd call them by -X crosses, based on the number of skipped holes.