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Offline steve69

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Spokes ?
« on: December 29, 2009, 05:37 PM »
How do you tell the difference between single and double butted spokes??

Were black spokes Old School??  Had coloured (red, blue, gold) spokes back in the day on some of my wheels but never black, was that because they weren't around? I don't remember.

Please tell :)
If there's air in the tyres... it's a rider

Offline MartyC

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Re: Spokes ?
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2009, 08:22 AM »
Single Butted spokes are fat at one end thin at the other and double butted are fat at both ends and thin in the middle.  Black spokes were around bitd, not a popular choice but they were around  :daumenhoch:.


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Offline steve69

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Re: Spokes ?
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2009, 01:30 PM »
Cheers Marty, faith has been restored, it's good to see somebody knows what they're talking about ;)
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Offline steve69

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Re: Spokes ?
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2009, 06:14 PM »
Just had a look at the spokes....

They're 2mm straight (no tapered ends), what are they known as ??? (other than s**t)

None the wiser :(
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Offline MartyC

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Re: Spokes ?
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2009, 08:29 AM »
Just had a look at the spokes....

They're 2mm straight (no tapered ends), what are they known as ??? (other than s**t)

None the wiser :(

They are known as Plain Gauge spokes  :daumenhoch:


Better to crash and burn than fade away

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