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Rowland Cook calls this spoking pattern "the best looking wheel I have seen" and
I must agree. Three intricately laced "fans" of spokes provide a graceful and
elegant symmetry that is immediately recognized as something other than an
average bicycle wheel. And because it's just a rearrangement of a standard cross-
3 wheel, it won't void your hub's warranty by requiring radial or nearly-radial
spokes, nor require more than one spoke length, unlike other "fancy" spoke
patterns. If you can build a standard wheel, you can build this instead with the
same hardware.
This guide doesn't pretend to offer all the details of wheelbuilding, just a step-by-
step for this pattern highlighting the difference from the standard cross-3... if
you've never built a wheel before, you can't do better than to read Sheldon
Brown's guide first, and well. It may make the difference between a good wheel
that stays true for many years and one that goes wobbly and/or breaks spokes in
the same season.
If you haven't obtained your spokes yet for your 3-Leading-3-Trailing wheel, err
on the side of long when you do. I'd estimate 1-2 mm in extra length to ensure
they can all thread properly into the nipples. The slight increase in length is
required because of the extra lacing in this pattern. If your spokes are just long
enough for a standard cross-3 wheel, you may find it impossible to continue
halfway through the job when the lacing starts. I'll be building a 36-spoke wheel
in this example.