OH. Another name for crow's foot. No advantage, novel without any real disadvantages as far as I can tell. It's always been kinda neat.
Chuck Hoefer
Vista, California USA
Hi,
My winter bike wheels (Normandy hubs and Mavic MA2 rims) have just come back from the wheel shop after a respoke with Italian stainless spokes to try and solve a clicking spoke issue. I note that the wheel builder has employed a rather unusual technique to lace the spokes and he calls this Spanish lace.
The Spanish lace appears to be a combination of radial spoke lacing and 2X spoke lacing (forward and reverse) on adjacent spokes with all the spoke heads being inserted from the inside face of the hub flange.
A picture of this hub and spoke weave can be found at
I wonder why the wheel builder has chosen to employ this lace pattern other than as a cure for 3X lacing boredom ?
Are any technical advantages or disadvantages known about this spoke lace pattern ?
Regards
Ken Hume London, England
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