Chuck Schmidt wrote:
>
> Ray Homiski wrote:
> >
> (Snip)
> > A neat tip that Steve told me on how to identify a 32 from a 36 spoked
> > wheel from a distance. If you have the parallel space at the valve hole
> > and you look 180 degrees around the wheel and that same space is directly
> > across from the other then you have a 32 hole hub. If there is a cross
> > directly across at 180 degrees it is 36. I know many of you knew this
> > already but I did not and it has saved me from counting a lot of spokes.
>
> My method works in the dark! I put three fingers between the spokes at
> the rim and depending on they fit it's either a 40°, 36° or 28°. Also
> works on unlaced rims too!
Ooops... 32° too.
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, Southern California