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Originally Posted by Bill Kapaun
On each side-
Trailing spokes should all be the same.
While that's the way that I build them, I don't think that statement is necessarily true.

Lots of wheels have been built with the left and right hub flanges the same rather than a mirror image of one another. I suspect that made it easier to insert the spokes into the flanges.
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