Originally Posted by
operator
You are confused. Dishing a wheel does absolutely jack all to the chainline. The only reason dishing even comes into play is when you've *Respaced* the wheel to offset the hub to one side to correct chainline error. THEN you redish the wheel to keep it centered.
Dishing has NOTHING to do with chainline.
The only thing I'm confused about is that in one sentence you correlate dishing to chainline, and two sentences later you say it has nothing to do with chainline.
Take spacers out of the equation. A wheel should ALWAYS be centered in the frame. Dishing is then employed to move the hub port (for gears) or centered (for fixed). Spacers fill the gap. The only
practical reason for redishing a 6-speed-freewheel-hub-to-ss-conversion is to get the proper chainline.
Relativity, depends on how you look at it.