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Pinkrobe:
What I mean by "spokes pulling in opposite directions". Imagine your rim was a
piece of rubber. The spoke tension would be pulling the rim into a sawtooth
pattern - one pulling from the left, one pulling from the right. This creates
internal stresses within the rim. This is not ideal. This is why truing wheels
kind of sucks. You put a hop in a wheel in the same direction that a spoke is
pulling and you have to put a heck of a lot of tension into the surrounding
two spokes to pull it back.
Two spokes pulling in opposite directions at the same point is more stable. It
will place less internal stress on the rim. In theory.
Nov. 19, 2013, 4:30 p.m. - Dirk
#!markdown Pinkrobe: What I mean by "spokes pulling in opposite directions". Imagine your rim was a piece of rubber. The spoke tension would be pulling the rim into a sawtooth pattern - one pulling from the left, one pulling from the right. This creates internal stresses within the rim. This is not ideal. This is why truing wheels kind of sucks. You put a hop in a wheel in the same direction that a spoke is pulling and you have to put a heck of a lot of tension into the surrounding two spokes to pull it back. Two spokes pulling in opposite directions at the same point is more stable. It will place less internal stress on the rim. In theory.