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Additional Notes on Spokes & Weight
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Sit down on a chair and lean your torso forward 25 degrees, so that there’s about a 65-deg angle between your thigh and your ‘orso. Now pull up your shirt and look at your belly. If it looks like something you’d be happy to display on your Bellybook page, then the following spoke-weight information may be useful to you. Otherwise, it is purely academic, but there’s nothing wrong with that every now and then.
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# of spokes
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How long mm
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14ga. plain
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14 ga. butted
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Oz. per wheel
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28
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292
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243.6
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215.6
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8.6/7.6
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32
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292
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278.4
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246.4
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9.8/8.7
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36
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292
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313.2
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277.2
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11/9.8
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The weights assume brass nipples. You save an ounce a wheel with each four-spoke subtraction.. But as you go to fewer spokes, the spokes get longer, saving you less weight; and fewer spokes creates less wind drag; but with more spokes, the spokes draft one another better. This is a problem with this kind of meaningless detail. The nonsense kicks in and it can go on forever. If you simply want strong, reliable wheels, you’ll simply ride more spokes, heavier rims, and bigger & softer tires.
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