Originally Posted by
Jeff Wills
Back when I started building wheels, we'd lace rear wheels with the same length on the left and right sides. One the wheel was built, dished, trued and tensioned, some of the right side spokes might be poking out the back side of the nipple. We'd grind those off with a skinny grinder.
IMO: you can get away with a lot when building wheels. Rabbit's +- 1.0mm is ideal, but most standard parts will let you get away with +- 2mm. Personally: don't overthink this. It's a bicycle, not rocket surgery.
With 10mm nipples which were pretty much standard back then...yes...
But with today's 12mm and 14mm...and box threaded spokes...it's more no.
...add to that today's hubs with extreme asymmetrical offsets........
=8-)
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