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Spoke lengths. Can i........

6 posts & 4 voices | Started 2 years ago by sslowpace | Latest reply from foxyrider

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sslowpace - Member

Looking at rebuilding my wheels with new rims/spokes etc. Using the DTswiss spoke calculator it gives me left 257/right 258 for the front and left 259/right 257 for the rear.

Simple question is can I get just 258mm spokes and do both wheels safely?
Cheers.

Posted 2 years ago #
foxyrider - Member

Yup you got at least 2mm each side without problems so IMHO I would say they should be fine!

I got WheelPro PDF book about wheel building when I built my first wheel - good read and very useful!

PDF Book here

Posted 2 years ago #
sslowpace - Member

Cheers Foxyrider.

Rogers book is very good and picked up a few good tips and techniques.

Posted 2 years ago #
Junkyard - Member

Yes it will be fine but you cannot do the simple tenison trick (screwdriver in nippple) at the start as described in the above book as one side needs to be tighter than the other at the start so it makes it a more complicated (still weasy though)

Posted 2 years ago #
clubber - Member

yes, as above.

Posted 2 years ago #
foxyrider - Member

No Probs sslowpace - and agree with Junkyard about the pre-tensioning as well!

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