kiltedcelt
100 W
TL;DR - pay attention so you don't have to lace your wheel over again. Wow, what a rookie mistake.
So I bought a NOS N171 hub to use on my full-fat tadpole tandem trike powered with a BBSHD (and of course two tandem riders), and in the documentation from the N171 manual they call for 1-cross lacing, OR 2-cross ONLY if spokes will not enter the spoke nipples at too much of an angle. I'd ordered spokes after running everything through FreeSpoke and came up with 200mm spokes - interestingly the spokes were only 6mm off from what NuVinci recommends. The rims are 559 Origin8 80mm fat bike rims - double rows of spoke holes. The ERD from the Weinmann website (the actual makers of the rim list it as 536 versus 546 or 547 ERD listed as general values in NuVinci documentation. Anyway, I laced this wheel up 1-cross to light tension and it looks like it'll work, but it's the weirdest damned wheel I've ever laced (excluding offset Pugsley wheels). So everything works out where there is one skipped row of spoke holes between each group of drive/non-drive spokes (see the photos). It looks like it's a stable and strong layout but I think this is probably the only time I've ever done a 1-cross build with a high flange hub and on a fat bike rim with the double spoke holes. All the other wheels I've ever built were always 2 or 3-cross, so this is kind of new to me. Anyone got any advice on this? Does it look acceptable to anyone else who has experience with a similar build?
So I bought a NOS N171 hub to use on my full-fat tadpole tandem trike powered with a BBSHD (and of course two tandem riders), and in the documentation from the N171 manual they call for 1-cross lacing, OR 2-cross ONLY if spokes will not enter the spoke nipples at too much of an angle. I'd ordered spokes after running everything through FreeSpoke and came up with 200mm spokes - interestingly the spokes were only 6mm off from what NuVinci recommends. The rims are 559 Origin8 80mm fat bike rims - double rows of spoke holes. The ERD from the Weinmann website (the actual makers of the rim list it as 536 versus 546 or 547 ERD listed as general values in NuVinci documentation. Anyway, I laced this wheel up 1-cross to light tension and it looks like it'll work, but it's the weirdest damned wheel I've ever laced (excluding offset Pugsley wheels). So everything works out where there is one skipped row of spoke holes between each group of drive/non-drive spokes (see the photos). It looks like it's a stable and strong layout but I think this is probably the only time I've ever done a 1-cross build with a high flange hub and on a fat bike rim with the double spoke holes. All the other wheels I've ever built were always 2 or 3-cross, so this is kind of new to me. Anyone got any advice on this? Does it look acceptable to anyone else who has experience with a similar build?