Lacing a Pineapple Front hub... (all radial ok?)

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Guys,

So I got my grubby hands on a NOS Pineapple front hub. I think it's probably the coolest bicycle part I have held in my hands ever.

What I want to do is use this hub for my Cervelo Road bike. I turned my old pair of Chris King Classic Silver hubs circa 1993 into a set of road wheels. I laced them 32 spoke, 3 cross, to Mavic Open Pros.

I want to use this newly acquired silver Pineapple Hub for my road bike.

I also want to lace this Pineapple hub fully radially. Do you guys think the flange for the J bend spokes can take the stress of radial lacing? I know a lot of hubs these days forbid you from lacing the front hub's flange radialy (Chris King, DTswiss makes a special front 240S front hub for radial lacing...).

I heard that these pineapple hubs were designed to take very high tensions because twisted spoke patterns required a lot of tension. Do you guys agree with this statement?

Also I'm thinking replacing the bearings and popping in some ceramic hybrids in there to save some weight. Has anyone ever taken this hub apart?

 

[pete_mcc]

I've seen a majority of these built radially rather than snowflake (which I think looks messy and dated in a snow-washed denim way), so I reckon you'll be fine. You also stand a better chance of finding a builder able to do it.

Not sure as to whether spending £50 on bearings is really gonna turn this into a lightweight wheel, maybe wait til the bearings die before you add em? Probably find by then ceramics will be a sensible price!

 

[gil_m]

Have fun

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