Windcheater trike - lacing pattern front
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Topic: Windcheater trike - lacing pattern front
Posted By: atlas_shrugged
Subject: Windcheater trike - lacing pattern front
Date Posted: 18 June 2025 at 4:01pm
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I have a cycle contact who asked me this question which I cannot answer. Can anyone help with advice on wheel lacing? This is the question: He is asking about lacing all the spokes outbound, as he heard Mike Burrows experimented with this design. I can see some advantages (probably only cross 1 patter) but thought I'd ask if you have any advice OR if you know wnyone with a similar recumbent trike who might have some thoughts? Interestingly, In Mike Burrows' book Bicycle Design he shows a similar hub with this pattern:  |
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Posted By: melle
Date Posted: 21 June 2025 at 1:31pm
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I'm trying to understand the potential advantages. I would think the lacing pattern in the pic puts a lot of strain on the J-ends of the spokes on the drum-side. Or is this perhaps done on purpose to balance the tension of the longer spokes on the other side? ------------- Optima Stinger | 2x Baron |
Posted By: atlas_shrugged
Date Posted: 21 June 2025 at 3:28pm
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melle - thanks for the reply. I post below the response from this chap: Providing the 'outbound' spokes on the drum side have been built carefully with spoke-line at the elbows corrected early on, these spokes should not be any more susceptible to fatigue failures than normal alternately laced spokes. Also, providing the hub flanges are symmetrical, tension in spokes on drum side and non-drum side will be equal, irrespective of whether spokes are laced 'in-bound' or 'out-bound'.
I've now watched various videos of Windcheetah recumbents. This single-cross 'all out-bound' pattern seems very common. I'm not sure how big the advantages are but it gives a slightly wider wheel better able to resist lateral forces. Also this cross-1 pattern allows adjacent outbound spokes to touch at their cross point (and better take up any slack). |
Posted By: nils
Date Posted: 19 September 2025 at 9:57am
 mine is spoked this way ------------- CU nils |
Posted By: KM2
Date Posted: 20 September 2025 at 1:11pm
| Is the lacing pattern simply to obtain more triangulation of the spokes because the hubs were slightly narrower than, say the Ice hubs, which have spokes from both inside and outside the hub flange. |