For the life of me I cant work out the difference between Spoke Centre and Rim Centre. I've been trying to work out the length of spokes I need and came across this link.
It all made sense to me until I got to the last section 'RIM SPOKE HOLE OFFSET AND STAGGER'
I just dont get it. The centre line of the rim is the centre line of spokes holes unless the holes are unevenly staggered. Is that not correct? What am I missing here?
LOL, fair enough. Some rims have the spoke holes offset so that you can build a rear wheel with more even tension, the stagger is when the holes appear to zig zag along the rim.
Ah OK, the rim centre is always the actual centre point as measured IE: halfway. The Spoke centre is an average, IE: 2/3rds of the way across one spoke hole and the opposite on the next spoke hole, it shows it in the pic.
Ok now that's where I'm most confused - that diagram. What does it represent for a start. The left hand side of it with the spoke holes I'm seeing as the rim. The right hand blank side I dont get.
Also wherever the spoke holes are in relation to the rim centre so long as they are equal distances from it then the spoke centre must be in the same place as the rim centre???
ie: where 'O' is a spoke hole
O
I
O
Therefore Spoke centre - 'I'
And if the 'O's were on the 'rim' edge then the rim centre is in the same place. Correct???
