I built this wheel yesterday for a bike I’m building today.
The rear hub is an Industry Nine with a SRAM XX1 compatible freehub body.
The rim is the Surly Rabbit Hole and it has two rows of 32 holes for the spokes. I built this wheel with all the spokes into the holes on the left. The hub also has flanges that are offset to the left. The spoke angle and tension are nearly equal and balanced this way. Notice the angle of the spokes in the picture above.
I love the idea of a really wide rim, does building it with the spokes to one side affect the rim’s integrity?
The wheel is laterally stronger when the spokes are equally tensioned and have the same angle. For hubs with equally spaced flanges, such as most single speed hubs, you would not build the wheel off to one side like this.
Is this a fat-tire rear wheel? An experimental new frame perhaps? Also, I’m interested to hear what you think of the XX1 drivetrain.