I have looked at alot of the laceing charts and I'm wondering if anybody ..off the top of your head ...can tell me how much the length changes if you do a cross 3 or a cross 4. I have a 3 speed nexus and it has 10'' spokes on it with a cross 2 pattern. I have another good alloy rim off that Schwinn that is laced to a 5 speed cog thing. The length of those spokes is 10 1/4 on a cross 3. The nexus has several broken spokes and I was wondering if you used a 1/4 longer spoke but did a cross 3 or 4 if it would take up that much length?