Re: OCC renamed: "Orange County Rat Chop-Suey!"
I've started getting nervous waiting for the rear hub to come in, so I decided to start experimenting with alternate wheel lacing patterns. Obviously I won't do all radial spokes, you don't do that on rear wheels. But since I am going to cut and re-thread the spokes anyways, why not see what kind of trouble I can get myself into? I took a spare rim and did some mock-ups to see how hard it would be. Here's some examples, I hope some of you guys haven't seen these, I'd love to see more custom bikes with custom laced wheels!
3-cross Crow's Foot (uses 1/3 radial spokes, and 2/3 spokes in 3-cross lengths)
It makes a very pretty, symmetrical looking wheel.
I wanted to try a 2-cross Crow's Foot, I've heard of it but never seen one. It uses 1/3 radials and 2/3 in a 2-cross length.
Still pretty, but less symmetrical.
This one I saw here, but never have seen one in person. It's a "half-trailing, half-leading" wheel, with all the right side spokes trailing, and all left spokes leading. It looks a lot cooler in person.
And finally, the one I wanted to try the most, a 3-trailing, 3-leading pattern. It uses all 3-cross lengths, just alternates every 3, instead of every other spoke. Very cool looking in person, too.
As of now, I'm leaning towards the 3-cross Crow's Foot, but the 3-lead-3-trail looks really killer, and I've never seen one in person, not even on a photo of a real bike on the internet.
What do you guys think?