Originally Posted by
motobecane69
doing it 1x simply because of spoke length purposes (got great deal on length of spoke that calculator said would be perfect for 1x front wheel, didn't know there was the crossing issue but i'm crossing them without touching)
I think I got it even more jacked up now that I'm probably gonna have to start all over again!
OK, to avoid the error, and get it right, read my prior post while looking at
Sheldon Brown's sketch here (scroll down to it). Place your hub right side toward you then the first two spokes you should load into the hub are the orange and yellow ones to the right of the valve hole. These will be your pulling spokes so decide whether you want them head in or out. The offset of the holes in the rim will determine which goes to the right and left flanges, but regardless
they have to be in holes such that the yellow one is half a hole to the right of the orange one when sighting across the hub. That's the key which sets the flange phasing, and from there the rest will follow automatically. Get this wrong, and you'll be starting again later.
For one cross, you'll take the spoke one hole to the
left of any spoke and bring it across to the rim one hole to the right. For 2x you'd go 3 holes to the left and one to the right, 3x = 5 holes, etc.
I hope this helps.
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