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Old 01-30-24 | 06:16 AM
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Tadpole trike rear wheel dish

It looks a bit tumbleweed in here, but just in case anyone has anything to say:
I will soon be building a hub motor into a rear wheel for a tadpole trike. While considering the build I started wondering just how important it is for the wheel to be "correctly" dished i.e. for the rim to be centred on the dropouts. The rim would be more evenly braced if it was centred on the hub flanges rather than the dropouts, but how much difference would this offset make to the handling of the trike, given that it doesn't lean like a bike? I was planning on lacing drive side all heads-in and NDS all heads-out for more equal bracing angles, but then I thought why not build it with regular half-in half-out and equal bracing angles, or all heads-in for widest bracing?
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