Originally Posted by
Jicafold
I feel it is impossible to draw conclusions such as "that spoke is going to the wrong hole and that's your problem" from 2 photographs when there are angle of the camera lens and parallax and all to consider. The guy has the wheel in his hand and ubdoubtedly looked at, counted, and examined it many times. He's not an idiot. So taking stab in the dark like that is not likely to help. The only question here is simply as the OP originally stated...why are the spokes going to the other side of the rim?
It's not impossible. Take a look for yourself.
Look at spoke 24 (top orange arrow) which is right above the valve and spoke 1 (bottom orange arrow) below the valve. If you trace them back, you can see that they come from the same side of the hub (blue and orange arrow at the hub). In fact, spoke "24" should be spoke "23". Now look at spoke 2 , spoke "3" (blue arrows pointing to spokes) and spoke "4". Spoke 2 comes from the left flange but spoke 3 also comes from the left flange. That's wrong.
And the reason that the spokes are going to the other side of the rim is because spoke number 4 is going into rim hole number 3 and spoke 3 is going into hole 4. The third hole on the rim is on the "right hand" side of the rim so the spoke is going into the wrong side of the rim. Once one spoke is out of place, the rest just naturally follow.