Front wheels are 0 dish and are not subjected to drive forces and should last until their rims wear out... if they were built right.

The front wheel on this bike came stock on a 1979 Raleigh Super Grand Prix and is a Normandy high flange hub laced 36/3 to a single walled Weinmann rim with 1.4 mm butted spokes... it is a really lightweight vintage wheel.

It has more than 10,000 km / 6000 miles on it (these are my miles) and has never needed to see a spoke wrench since the day I tuned it up and the rim is still in excellent shape because most of it's life it has been mounted to my fixed gear road bike (less braking wear) and has only seen nicer weather and very little rain.

It's bearings are still as smooth as silk too.