{"id":987,"date":"2016-07-21T10:02:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T14:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/?p=987"},"modified":"2016-07-29T22:19:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T02:19:45","slug":"how-bicycle-spokes-transmit-torque-between-hub-and-rim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/21\/how-bicycle-spokes-transmit-torque-between-hub-and-rim\/","title":{"rendered":"How bicycle spokes transmit torque between hub and rim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have <a href=\"http:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/torque-spoking.html\">a new article<\/a> which describes how the spokes transmit pedaling and braking torque between the hub and rim. The spokes do it by changes in tension &#8212; but how much does the tension change? The article explains the drawing below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-988\" style=\"width: 541px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-988\" src=\"http:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Torque-diagram-two-spokes.png\" alt=\"Diagram showing how a spoked wheel transmits torque\" width=\"541\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Torque-diagram-two-spokes.png 541w, https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Torque-diagram-two-spokes-300x293.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 85vw, 541px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diagram showing how a tension-spoked wheel transmits torque<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a new article which describes how the spokes transmit pedaling and braking torque between the hub and rim. The spokes do it by changes in tension &#8212; but how much does the tension change? The article explains the drawing below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,825,820,53,818,828,827,819,822,821,816,824,817,823,109,826,40,41,43,42,211,221,399,515,177],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-bicycle","tag-bicycles","tag-bike","tag-brake","tag-brown","tag-calculate","tag-calculation","tag-capt","tag-captain","tag-captbike","tag-cycle","tag-cyclery","tag-cycling","tag-harris","tag-pedaling","tag-ratios","tag-sheldon","tag-sheldon-brown","tag-sheldonbrown","tag-sheldonbrown-com","tag-spoke","tag-spokes","tag-tension","tag-torque","tag-wheel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}