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Originally Posted by deacon mark
I built a Velocity aerohead rear offset and used Velocity hubs and the rear spokes were both 292 in length for a 32 hole 3x rim. It made a nice wheel and I am totally on board with the off set rear wheels. If you can make the rim that way and get better tension balance then why not? My understanding is the tooling required to change to have off set rims is high. At this point I would love to build a DT swiss 440 rim that has the o/c option.
Minor loss of stiffness, but worth it IMO.
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