Twisted Spoke Bicycle Wheel Lacing - flowers!

Step 2: Choose your spokes.

Take a look at all the online spoke calculators. Largely ignore them.
Basically just take a set of spokes way too long to build for the equipment you have.
Take a best guess at the twisty pattern. I've included 3 configurations in this how-to as a guide. I don't know of any spoke calculator for doing these patterns...

Comments

[mntbikersid]

I ahve built up a set of these, a general rule of thumb is to take the length the spoke calculator gives you, and add 10mm

[clifzelf]

hi, do you mean 10 mm compared to a cross-3 pattern?

[ll.13]

Yes, I think that is what the OP was referring to.