I am not sure it works quite like that. Dishless, or for most, "less dish", allows all the rear spokes to fully/more fully support the wheel. On a highly dished rear wheel (8/9/10+ speed), the drive side spokes are bearing the brunt of the load. The left side spokes are really just centering the rim between the dropouts and stabilizing things...
Doug On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Montclair BobbyB <montclairbob...@gmail.com>wrote: > Speaking of these offset, so-called "dishless" rims, I struggle > getting my head around why this is a preferable option in the first > place. (And I have built one up and ridden it for well over 2 years > without incident, so I have had no bad experiences per se.) I > understand a dished rim is generally less desirable than a wheel with > no dish (but only to a point). My main aversion is the fact that the > spokes on an offset rim are positioned off-center. This places the > weight of the rider (and therefore more stress) on the side of the > rim, not the center (where it should be). Imagine running in shoes > where you're turning your ankle out, essentially running on the > outside edge of the sole. Granted that's a slight exaggeration, but > on my bike I'd want my weight squarely centered on that rim, and on > that tire... right? What am I missing? > > BB > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
