I'm building my first wheel from scratch, using the info on Sheldon Brown and other sites. It's a single speed wheel with a flip flop hub. The problem is that, having laced the wheel and done a preliminary tighten, the spokes inside the hub flange (the trailing spokes) are getting pretty tight, while the spokes on the outside of the flanges (the leading spokes) are still really baggy. Is this normal? I'm a bit concerned that I may have done one of the following:
– Laced the spokes one hole along from where they're meant to be. I was under the impression that if they're offset to the right of the rim, you lace them to the right hand side of the hub – is this correct?
– Ordered the wrong length of spokes.
– Ordered all one length of spoke when I should have got half slightly shorter.
