creative spoke patterns

i prefer a strong spoke pattern over a good looking one. most "fancy"
spoke patterns aren't very strong. if you can find one that has both,
good for you.

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Any kind of fancy spoke patterns on a uni wheel would not be a good
idea. I use to chickenwire lace my front wheels on my mtn bikes with
not real loss in strenght....but one time i laced a rear wheel chicken
wire (drive and non-drive) with terrible results.....stick with cross
patterns..they are the most used for a reason.

-tom

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what exactly is chicken wire lace? is it just a fancy patern?

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I have one picture of a custom-spoked unicycle on my Garage page:
http://www.unicycling.com/garage/special.htm
That's a triple-spoked 24" Schwinn. Back in those days, double-spoking a
Schwinn wheel made it a lot stronger (it only came with 28).
Triple-spoking was mostly for looks. The owner of that wheel liked the
extra weight because he felt it made him go straighter in races. And he
was really fast. But all those spokes probably start compromising the
strength in the hub by having too many holes in there.

Custom spoke patterns should be used for looks, but will not improve
upon the normal crossed and laced patterns of normal wheels. As someone
mentioned, they are done that way for a reason, with more than a hundred
years' of development and experimentation behind it.

Most of what's done in the sport bicycling arena is designed to make
wheels lighter and/or more aerodynamic while keeping the weight down.
Generally road racing wheels are not super-strong, they are super-light.
They are not good role models for unicycle wheels.

Cruiser wheels (and bikes) tend to be a lot heavier than average bikes.
That's okay because they're just for cruising around (if even that). For
a display or light-riding-only unicycle, you can try all sorts of stuff.

Radial wheels are beautiful. The earlier Semcycle Deluxes came with 36
radial spokes, which looked really cool. Unfortunately this is not a
good pattern for unicycles. Simple idling would make the spokes loosen
up many times faster than a normal wheel. Also if you broke one spoke in
a radial wheel, the others would follow a lot faster.

But I've seen bikes on display with huge numbers of radial spokes and
they look really cool. Usually this is on the front wheel, where no
torque gets applied, but you can still do it on a unicycle, and ride it,
just remember to keep them tight.

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snowflake wheels are an interesting pattern.

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Its the same as the snowflake....the shops around me called it
chikenwire....all da same....

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