On 6/7/19 9:24 am, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 7/5/2019 4:34 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:

If this is the case, why not have any sort of spoke installed and not
have the stiffest steel possible? Duhhhhhh.

Sorry, that bit of blather was too vague to make sense.

But about "any sort of spoke": If you want a stiffer wheel, use thicker
spokes. Or use more spokes. Or read _The Bicycle Wheel_ which contains
actual (gasp!) engineering instead of folklore. Try to understand it. I
can help.



Maybe the spokes are so loose in Tom's loosely tensioned wheel, as to go
slack when he pushes the rim sideways?

They probably rattle in use too.

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JS