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Does it even, in practice, matter if you accidentally get your drive/nds mixed up on a non-dished wheel?
It's not really the dish which is at issue but the clearance to the rest of the drive train. The reason why we have the pulling spokes inbound on a rear wheel for a dérailleur equipped bike [or a disc braked front], is that the driving [braking] load tends to pull the interlaced last crossing away from the dérailleur cage [brake caliper], and that clearance tends to be fairly tight so the last thing you want is for it to close up when you're applying maximum torque.
For a double-fixed wheel, you get to choose whether to build both sides with the pulling spokes inbound or to build it mirror-image as is conventional on most other wheels. There is no really good reason to choose one or the other, but whichever you choose make sure you can defend it when some pub bore questions your choice :-)
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@mdcc_tester here's a question for you: How does one lace a doublesided track hub...
..."proper" one end and drive/NDS on the other end...? As you end up using both sides (that's the whole idea...)
Does it even, in practice, matter if you accidentally get your drive/nds mixed up on a non-dished wheel? In theory, yes, in practise on a 28 spoke wheel...? Is there any data?
Of course I didn't count the nights lying awake sleepless cos you got the lacing wrong... :p