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AndyT
Anyone know of an online spoke calculator? ...or have access to a calculator?

I have some LF Suzue hubs & Velocity K-525 rims (20") that need to be built up.


thinking 185mm-ish for 3cross ...but would like to be little more accurate
kdw 712
heres a link to one i found on my travels

spoke length calc
AndyT
Thanks, man.

185 front 183 rear.
now for the fun
kdw 712
hey good luck lacing them

one word dont even bother to it when your tired / grumpy / drunk ! i relaced one set about 7 times due to operator error and placing spokes in the wrong hole or 3 inbound and then a out bound - not good !! LOL

post some pics when you have them done !

Kev
AndyT
The pic you requested...




These have been done for long time but have been slow about posting - sorry.

I hear ya about building. The first set of Velocity V rims I built were wrong... I worked from the outsde and did the hole to the left meant spoke to left thing, like any flat rim - WRONG. I had them both built and one about half-way thru truing before I realized my goof.
Doh! DOH!!!

It was my bike.
Alloy nipples are always a pain for me to use w/o scratching them up (and I had managed to get these in clean).
So then - I decided to leave it as is. They are on my MTB still going strong after 6yrs.
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