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Please explain, I'll change my habits if you have science. On rear wheels, it is traditional to have the pulling spokes inbound for crossed/interleaved builds (as pictured), because the increase in tension under power then tends to pull the interleaved crossing inboard, and away from the dérailleur. This is obviously irrelevant on track wheels.

On dished rear wheels, yup, I know you're supposed to do it the other way. But I definitely got this from somewhere reputable, probably Jobst Brandt. I'll check the book.

So, I went and had a look through the Brandt book, but it doesn't seem to back up what I thought. It does indeed recommend that you build rear wheels with the trailing spokes on the inside, irrespective of dish.

However, the Musson book is the other way round. His method ends up with the leading spokes on the inside. And then I remembered where I got the 'stronger' thing from - before I started building wheels, I had a set built by Arup and he specifically told me that he built them so that the hub logos were readable from behind when installed in the 'correct' - stronger - orientation, which was leading spokes inside.

So I've always built front wheels and track wheels that way round.

I wonder if it might have something to do with the Brandt diagrams showing the build process from the non-drive side, when one might assume they were from the drive side.

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