Originally Posted by
MrCjolsen
3. I needed to re-dish this wheel quite a bit. I notice that there's considerable clearance between the first cog and the frame when the wheel is installed. That means that it could be dished considerably more than it needs to be. I could re-space the hub, moving it about 5mm to the left and take some of the dish out of the wheel. Could that be the root of the problem?
Reducing the dish offset could help considerably. It's the low tension spokes that most often break.
Typically on multispeed bikes the non-driveside spokes have the lowest tension due to the hub offset. If you could move the hub so that the smallest cog is closer to the frame (that would be a move to the right when viewed from behind) then re-dishing would mean an tension increase in the non-driveside spokes decrease in the driveside spokes.
Al