Originally Posted by
dabac
I think 1X should work too.
Now it's my turn to draw a diagram, and you're right. It looks like it would work. You would have to calculate spoke length as if it was a 16 spoke wheel.
Originally Posted by
eddy m
That's not true. In a conventional wheel. half the spokes don't have enough tension to support the rim under all circumstances. In a triplet laced wheel, you have fewer spokes but at least they are all adequately tensioned. The greater spans and bending moments between spokes doesn't seem to be an issue at all, at least with deep section rims.
That's the limit of my understanding of physics. Do you get to split the tension evenly between the two spokes sharing the one NDS? If so, it would in fact make a wheel with almost perfectly even tension on both sides, making the NDS spokes more useful than a 32 spoke wheel. I'm not sure how that works.