Probably, but you can do the calcs yourself. Don't want less than 50% thread engagement. The pitch will tell you the 100% engagement figure. If .2 mm pitch (can't remember off hand), then you'll need at least 0.1mm engagement. The tapping drill dia will tell you, so if it's less than 1.8mm you should be safe even on bottom tolerance wire.

Regards

Richard

You should ideally roll the threads on spokes for strength.

This was covered in ME many years ago.

Neil

It might help (or not, of course) to remind you that penny-farthing spokes were mostly radial – the tangent idea only came in very late.

And if you wish to be one of the in-crowd in bicycle terms, they are called 'ordinaries'. The bicycles, not the spokes. Because when the 'Safety' came in, the big-wheelers were seen as ordinary.

Cheers, Tim

You can get long nipples that are about 1" long. Cut off the hub end of a spoke, drill out half teh length of the nipple and silver solder it to the spoke. Screw the second spoke into the soldered nipple. No need to tap any threads and all male threads can remain rolled.

J

over the last twenty to thirty years there have beena number of build articles on a number of different/unusual bicycles/velocipedes, going into great detail on wheel making, from rims, to spokes, hubs. Ian S C