Bullseye Mavic and snowflake

[rollo91]

Seen them in the flesh and they are the nuts, pictures dont do them justice. They are strong wheels when trued as I know many racers that used them in the day with no failures. There not a waste of good hubs, this build compliments trick componants of the day unlike modern mass made toot. The rest of the build parts for this bike are truely stunning

 

[paulvandermoolen]

I am a heavy biker and have allmost all my wheels build like this(snowflake/twisted) and they are strong. Better than normal Spokes for me.... The wheels look gorgeous. Like the combo with the coloured nipples. Just awesome

 

[PopsTrippin]

I had some wheels built in '94 and the builder only "snowflaked" the front wheel as he said the rear wheel wouldn't be strong enough with twisted spokes?

 

[paulvandermoolen]

I am over 100 kilo and i never snapped a single twisted rear Wheel spoke. So it depends WHO you believe. I never had problems with it. I recently build a set of wheels with twisted Spokes. DT-Hugi hubs on Mavic rims. Can't wait to run them....

 

[paulvandermoolen]

I am over 100 kilo and i never snapped a single twisted rear Wheel spoke. So it depends WHO you believe. I never had problems with it. I recently build a set of wheels with twisted Spokes. DT-Hugi hubs on Mavic rims. Can't wait to run them....

 

[Rich]

Never been sure about snowflaked wheels eh, not really my thing...lovely hubs and rims though, NOS??

Rich

 

[single speed & steel]

Rim are NOS Give £50 for them a few months ago, Hub arent NOS been laced up a few time but in great condition.

 

[single speed & steel]

Found some spare time to true the rear wheel and fit the tyre, all went smooth and feels strong.

 

[jimo746]

nice attention to detail, I like them!
I run snowflaked spokes front & rear and have never had any problems at all, even bitd I never had an issue with a snowflaked wheel... and my wheelbuilding skills have come on a bit since then

 

[zetecmk2]

bitd we never used to snowflake the drive side of the rear because of the lack of dish due to the cassette....these spokes are under a lot more tension and can bind if snowflaked........i built fully snowflaked rears for myself though. i used to place the wheel horizontally on the ground and "push" the rim to the ground until it stopped creaking, then re-true. keep doing this until you are happy with equal tension.
if you snapped a spoke, it was easier to build a new wheel than to get the new spoke up to tension due to binding........hell, i think i'll build myself a set, must be 15 years since i last built a snowfkake!!