Wheel and spoke, in particular for a bicycle

A wheel of an at least partially muscle-powered bicycle, comprising:

• a hub and a rim, wherein the hub is connected with the rim through a plurality of spokes, at least one of the spokes including a spoke body having two ends remote from one another, namely a hub-side, first end and a rim-side, second end, wherein the hub-side end is connected with the hub and the rim-side end is connected with the rim, the spoke body is elongated and comprises at least one first center region disposed closer to the first end than to the second end and at least one second center region disposed closer to the second end than to the first end, wherein the first center region and in the second center region of the spoke body, each comprise a flattened cross-section which is substantially accommodated in a longitudinal plane, and wherein the cross-section of the second center region is more asymmetric than the cross-section of the first center region.