Topic: lacing cb750 wheels

[bollingball]

I don't know where the idea of a cross 4 came from.
I do
Quote lucky When you look down at the wheel and you look at a spoke it must cross over 4 other spokes.
Ken

[MCRider]

I don't know where the idea of a cross 4 came from.
I do
Quote lucky When you look down at the wheel and you look at a spoke it must cross over 4 other spokes.
Ken

I can't tell if there is sarcasm or humor involved here.

I was trying to be polite.

Lucky called it a cross 4 for some other reason, group of 4 or whatever.

The terminology of "cross this or that" has to do with the number of inside spokes an outside spoke will cross. On a CB750 front wheel its 3, on the rear its 2.

[Old Scrambler]

When you lace your own wheels you tend to sit a little taller at the bench-racing sessions........just remember to check for loose spokes after a few miles.

[lucky]

I don't know where the idea of a cross 4 came from.
I do
Quote lucky When you look down at the wheel and you look at a spoke it must cross over 4 other spokes.
Ken

I can't tell if there is sarcasm or humor involved here.

I was trying to be polite.

Lucky called it a cross 4 for some other reason, group of 4 or whatever.

The terminology of "cross this or that" has to do with the number of inside spokes an outside spoke will cross. On a CB750 front wheel its 3, on the rear its 2.

That is just the way I was taught.
There are other spoke patterns also that you see on show bikes.

[pitpig]

Don't know if this helps, but I had great success by dropping all the inners at the same time into the hub.  It was easier to visualize where they went in each group of four.  Took me a day to figure out that there are groups of four dimples that point inboard around the rim.  Installed all the inners without flipping hub over, once you get that figured out, the outers are easy.