Radial lacing on Shimano hubs

[Jon Wilson]

Does anyone have any experience of radial lacing on shimano hubs?

I've just bought a pair of dura ace hubs, and I'm toying with the idea of radial lacing on the front
and semi-radial on the rear.

 

[Stuart Stebbing]

"Jon Wilson" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Does anyone have any experience of radial lacing on shimano hubs?
>
> I've just bought a pair of dura ace hubs, and I'm toying with the idea of radial lacing on the
> front and semi-radial on the rear.

What are you hoping to achieve by radial lacing?. There is no physical constraint to doing it, but
you will invalidate the warranty.

I have yet to see any benefit from radial lacing a road wheel apart from, it is a bit easier to
clean the hub!

 

[Dave]

"Jon Wilson" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> Does anyone have any experience of radial lacing on shimano hubs?
>
> I've just bought a pair of dura ace hubs, and I'm toying with the idea of radial lacing on the
> front and semi-radial on the rear.
>
heh-heh, read this as radical lacing ! Although I'm not familiar with radial lacing either, it does
make a bit more sense than radical. Thought it might be lacing from rim to rim, miss the hub out
altogether...now that's radical!!...wouldn't get you far though ! Sorry. Not much help.... I'll get
me bike! Dave.

 

[Andy Welch]

On 3-Apr-2003, "Jon Wilson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Does anyone have any experience of radial lacing on shimano hubs?
>
> I've just bought a pair of dura ace hubs, and I'm toying with the idea of radial lacing on the
> front and semi-radial on the rear.

None that's going to be of much use I fear. I know that Shimano advise you not to do this and that
it would invalidate any warranty on the hub. But you probably knew that already. I have also just
bought some Dura Ace hubs and Open Pro rims and did also toy with the idea of radial (or some other
unusual) lacing pattern. But the more I looked into it the more I realised that the 3X pattern
became the norm for a good reason. Radial is fashionable at the moment but 3X will give you a
strong, stiff wheel and thew weight penalty over radial lacing is next to nothing.

I did use black spokes and black rims so can't claim to be totally immune to fashion

Cheers,

Andy

ps. For some reason the holes on the drive side of my (rear) Dura Ace hub were smaller than on the
other side. Small enough that getting 2/1.8/2mm DT double butted spokes through was a struggle.
But I checked with a hub at the LBS and that was the same so I guess it is normal and once the
wheel is under tension the spokes seem to seat OK.