Radial lace front wheel?

[joss]

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Radial on front wheel for canti or V is ok.

My advice: stainless spokes, brass nipples.
Use boiled linseed oil instead of threadlock, it is easier after time for truing etc.

After building, de stress frequently and gently.
True the wheel all round earlier in the process than normal and bring the spokes up to final tension in several small steps.

Dress the all the spokes to the flange
Pay particular attention to dishing, .5mm is a lot on Radial spokes

Just a few things I do

Enjoy the experience

 

[joss]

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Tensioning of spokes Front wheel
Check with manufacturer

As a guide front wheel approx 900-1000 newtons or 200lbs to 225lbs
Double check but this is my guide standard rims will start to react to stress at approx 1200 newtons
Cheaper alloy rims can approx 15 % lower

These are only my guides approach limits with caution a lot depends on quality of components

 

[WD Pro]

This ones been like this since about 93 :



On good old XT :



More modern, but still rim brakes - radial front and half radial rear :



Not sure if that's relevant though due to bespoke hub and spoke design - pretty sure they won't last as well either ...

WD

 

[xerxes]

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This ones been like this since about 93 :

Look how clean it is. Wheels don't break when they're not used.

 

[WD Pro]

It got a lot of use back in the day, but a lot of storage when cars and girls came along ... I think it's history is in the build thread somewhere but I know for sure in it's time its done Snowdon twice and been over the three peaks etc. The hub survived a 'crisped' front wheel, my collar bone didn't survive quite as well ...

Hubs don't break if there not used ? I think some retro cnc hub owners would disagree ... ;-)

WD

 

[FluffyChicken]

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Hope hubs and Gripshift Xray break if you stare at them.


Radial hubs stay clean as the leaves, grass, hay, weeds, twigs and anything else that creates a wattle a daub disc around your wheel with 3x setups, just doesn't happen.

 

[WD Pro]

But polishing with NXT on a soft bristled toothbrush really helps, finishing with cocktail sticks dipped in NXT to get around the spokes just about finishes them off ... ;-)

 

[magas]

last week my radial lanced front wheel broke :cry:

Mavic rim - DT spokes - DT-Hügi 240 front hub (32 hole) - non disc.

Stood in the shed for some times and suddenly the flange of the hub rips away (at the lengh of 4 nipple holes).

Advice from my wheelbuilder - get a hub with enough "meat" on the flange and not more than 28 holes in the hub to reduce the stress and always use a tensiometer.

 

[Rob H]

Stupid question but surely using a beefier hub defeats the weight savings from using a radial lacing?

 

[02gf74]

Not a stupid question. Less spokes reduces inertia. The less weight you have from the centre of rotation, the better. In the real world it makes fa difference as most likely the tyres/tubes unless superlight would negate any weight saved due to fewer spokes.