Patent ID: 8313154

Claim:
A bicycle wheel having flexible spokes comprising: a wheel rim having a predefined even number of spoke couplings along an inner circumference, the wheel rim further having a surface for attachment of a bicycle tire; each flexible spoke is a cable having a length defined by two end terminations, wherein a termination couples with a spoke coupling; and a rotatable wheel hub comprising: a hub body positioned approximately at a rotational center of the wheel rim; a left flange separated by a predefined axial distance along the hub body from a right flange, the left and right flanges extend radially outward toward the wheel rim from the hub body and have a radial edge; a left flange outer surface that converges towards the wheel rim spoke couplings and a right flange outer surface that converges towards the wheel rim spoke couplings; and means for securing a respective flexible spoke onto one of the left and right flange outer surfaces.