On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 9:16:58 PM UTC-7, Tim McNamara wrote:
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 07:49:50 +0700, John B wrote:
On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 10:51:45 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

https://janheine.wordpress.com

Today's blog post is about building strong wheels.

He seems to ignore the upper spokes. If the bottom spokes become
unloaded ( looser) then, logically, the top spokes must become more
highly loaded (tighter) :-) -- Cheers,

groan And here we go again... ;-)

The conversation always reminds me of The Boonie Book.
https://www.amazon.com/Boonie-Book-R.../dp/0912656174

We had a copy when I was a kid and I read it over and over and practiced the tricks and maintained my hodaka as instructed. The author, Carl Shipman, who also wrote a series of books about cameras (How to use Canon SLR Cameras, How to use Nikon SLR Cameras, ...) had a very paternalistic writing style and sounded very knowledgeable. He went into discussions of stuff like rake and trail which were very interesting.
He also claimed, in his typical paternalistic and reassuring way, that tying and soldering spokes makes a stronger wheel. He also explained, accompanied by a series of drawings, that while a wooden-spoke wagon wheel stands on the bottom spoke, a tangenitally-laced wire-spoke wheel hangs from the top two.