In my article ‘Do Bicycle Hubs Hang from the Rim?‘ I explain that in order to understand how bicycle wheels work they need to be thought of as a complete structural system, with the hub, rim, and every spoke contributing to the strength and stability of the wheel. In this article I am going to […]
Building bicycle wheels is one of those things which is often seen as black magic by people who have never done it before. The perceived complication starts with component choice. When you buy a pre-built wheel, the manufacturer or wheel builder chooses the hub, rim, and spokes for you; but when you build your own, […]
Spoke length calculators such as this typically rely on two standard hub measurements for each hub flange: pitch circle diameter, which is the diameter of the circle about which the spoke holes are drilled, and flange to center distance, which is the distance between the center of the hub and the center of the left […]
Do bicycle hubs hang from the spokes above or do they stand on the spokes below? This question is occasionally debated on forums and other places in the cycling world, where impassioned people come together to defend their side of the argument – sometimes even using the same understanding of how a bicycle wheel works […]