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Here is my spoke length calculator. It is designed to be as basic to use as possisble. It assumes you know why you need a certain length of spokes for your wheel, and that you know how to measure the non-spoke components of your future wheel. It also assumes you don't have very big spoke holes in your hub or anything like that.
It is great for seeing how much the spoke length changes when you change one of the measurements by a millimeter or two. It is generally surprisingly small!
The math for the program was taken from The Bicycle Wheel by Jobst Brandt, 3rd edition.
If you use this, write me an e-mail to let me know how it worked for you and what you think! If you'd like a copy for your web page, you can download a zip file containing the java class files, an HTML document like this one to put them in and this funky background pattern, here, so long as you set me up with a link back to my home page.
Just unzip the file, open the HTML document (spoke.html) and it will run the applet!
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Updated November 28, 1997
