I did a complete overhaul on a Bontrager wheel.
I'll be cleaning the rim, hub, and center.
The drive side uses reverse Italian-style tangent lacing—a 4-0 pattern.
Anyway, moving on...
The drive side uses bent-head spokes, while the non-drive side uses straight spokes.
I suspect they chose bent-head spokes for the drive side specifically because they wanted the tangent-laced side to have a coaxial flange.
On coaxial vs. offset flanges (→here)
With offset flanges, spoke crossing is usually not done.
Or rather, the structure often doesn't allow it.
On this wheel, they do braid it (since it has coaxial flanges).
I think the goal was to make the flange width as narrow as possible while still doing tangent lacing.
Plus, it's quite a pronounced high-low flange design.
They really thought this through.
They're using a pretty extreme difference in spoke diameters between left and right.
Like I said, the drive side is definitely thicker. I'm not sure if they're doing this for the same reasons I do, but
just like my go-to combo of drive-side Comp / non-drive-side CX-RAY,
it should definitely help correct the lateral balance of the wheel.
I didn't realize the hub was DT-made until I took it apart and saw the star ratchet.
Oh, one more thing—see how the inpoke passes on the inside at the crossing points?
It's braided.
I'll be cleaning the rim, hub, and center.
The drive side uses reverse Italian-style tangent lacing—a 4-0 pattern.
Anyway, moving on...
The drive side uses bent-head spokes, while the non-drive side uses straight spokes.
I suspect they chose bent-head spokes for the drive side specifically because they wanted the tangent-laced side to have a coaxial flange.
On coaxial vs. offset flanges (→here)
With offset flanges, spoke crossing is usually not done.
Or rather, the structure often doesn't allow it.
On this wheel, they do braid it (since it has coaxial flanges).
I think the goal was to make the flange width as narrow as possible while still doing tangent lacing.
Plus, it's quite a pronounced high-low flange design.
They really thought this through.
They're using a pretty extreme difference in spoke diameters between left and right.
Like I said, the drive side is definitely thicker. I'm not sure if they're doing this for the same reasons I do, but
just like my go-to combo of drive-side Comp / non-drive-side CX-RAY,
it should definitely help correct the lateral balance of the wheel.
I didn't realize the hub was DT-made until I took it apart and saw the star ratchet.
Oh, one more thing—see how the inpoke passes on the inside at the crossing points?
It's braided.