DT Swiss Launches New Spoke Calculator

Anyone who’s had to take a strange new pairing of wheel and hub has probably consulted the DT online spoke calculator. As well as having a stock of standard hubs and rims in its brain, it’ll also let you enter your own measurements for stuff it doesn’t have. Then you can add funny lacing patterns and it’ll spit out the spoke lengths for you.

Well, now it’s been made easier to use – and it’s available on tablets and phones too, so no awkward silences at the bike shop when you’re trying to order spokes for that new build for the weekend.

The measurements of the complete DT Swiss product range is available in the program and makes it easy for a professional wheelbuilder to calculate spoke length and weight of any wheel. The program automatically proposes matching components and vice versa prevents the use of incompatible components. In a personal account calculations can be saved, exported and re-used later. This tool is a free of charge service from DT Swiss.

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View the ‘SPEICHENKALKULATOR’ here

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

Comments (2)

mtbfixmtbfix September 14, 2015 at 8:32 pm

Does it now add 2mm if you’re using Sapim spokes?

BezBez September 14, 2015 at 11:56 pm

Meh. They lost me after the old one went unfixed for months vapourising all my saved configurations. Delete my data and you’re not my friend. I use Edd now.

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