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* * Chas
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"A Muzi" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> >> * * Chas wrote:
> >>> I remember the term "pulling spokes" at least back to the
> >>> early 1970s when someone was teaching me how to build wheels.
> >> Yes, a google search suggests that Jobst's "the Bicycle Wheel"
> >> was first published in 1981.
>
> > "John Henderson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Likewise I remember the term "pulling spokes" from before that.
> >> I've found one of my old books, "Building Bicycle Wheels" by
> >> Robert Wright, published in 1977. While I would no longer
> >> recommend this book to anyone, the author does use the term, eg
> >> "I believe it's best to build rear wheels symmetrically, with
> >> all the pulling spokes leaving the flanges from the outside
> >> faces" (p13).
>
> * * Chas wrote:
> > Funny, I was always told to have the pulling spokes on the inside - by
an
> > engineer that I worked for at the time.
>
>
> This has been hashed out many times. There are favorable features either
> way but no compelling reason to go in or out. We each build as we are
> accustomed and it makes no practical difference.
>
> --
> Andrew Muzi
This is a timely topic for me as I've been building some wheels lately and
I was wondering what the current opinion was. I was taught that putting
the pulling spokes on the inside protected them from chain damage.
Chas.
news:[email protected]...
> >> * * Chas wrote:
> >>> I remember the term "pulling spokes" at least back to the
> >>> early 1970s when someone was teaching me how to build wheels.
> >> Yes, a google search suggests that Jobst's "the Bicycle Wheel"
> >> was first published in 1981.
>
> > "John Henderson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Likewise I remember the term "pulling spokes" from before that.
> >> I've found one of my old books, "Building Bicycle Wheels" by
> >> Robert Wright, published in 1977. While I would no longer
> >> recommend this book to anyone, the author does use the term, eg
> >> "I believe it's best to build rear wheels symmetrically, with
> >> all the pulling spokes leaving the flanges from the outside
> >> faces" (p13).
>
> * * Chas wrote:
> > Funny, I was always told to have the pulling spokes on the inside - by
an
> > engineer that I worked for at the time.
>
>
> This has been hashed out many times. There are favorable features either
> way but no compelling reason to go in or out. We each build as we are
> accustomed and it makes no practical difference.
>
> --
> Andrew Muzi
This is a timely topic for me as I've been building some wheels lately and
I was wondering what the current opinion was. I was taught that putting
the pulling spokes on the inside protected them from chain damage.
Chas.