Strongest Wheels on the market

[amberwolf]

48H is much stronger then 36H might be an option for mid drive setup, just cant lace no motor into the rim later on.

Sure you can. There've been a number of discussions and articles here and elsewhere about lacing rims and hubs with different numbers of spoke holes. Might get complicated, but you can do it.

At least some of the spoke calculators may even automatically get you the right spoke lengths for this.


If you wanna use the "correct" number of spokes for the rim, but the hub doesn't have the right holes, you can make bolt-on rings for teh flanges that have the rim's number of holes on the outer circumference, and the inner one matches the hub's number of holes.

Probably other ways, too.

 

[nfmisso]

"If you wanna use the "correct" number of spokes for the rim, but the hub doesn't have the right holes, you can make bolt-on rings for teh flanges that have the rim's number of holes on the outer circumference, and the inner one matches the hub's number of holes.

Probably other ways, too."

just drill the flanges with the correct number of holes. A hub motor's flange is so large that adding a few extra holes is not a problem.

 

[amberwolf]

If you just drill extra holes, they won't be in a symmetrical pattern, and two problems arise with that:

--stresses on the flange will be uneven and given quality control (or lack thereof) in common hubmotors, this could cause failure of the flange (and wheel) if a defect exists in the wrong place (which you can't know till it reveals itself). (realistically, probably not much worse risk than running with the too-thick spokes most of these wheels come with)

--spoke lengths may have to be different for various points on the hub. (similar problem to lacing unequal spoke hole numbers)