Proper spoke tension when dishing to the side of the hub I am building wheel with 7 speed freewheel so my rim dishing needs to be towards the side of the hub.
Using 281mm spokes on both sides of the hub except for side close to freewheel used 12mm nipples and for other side 16mm nipples.
I have tension 160 kgf for spokes at hub side and about 90 kgf for spokes on opposite side.
Somewhere i read &quot;tension for spokes ideally needs to same prevent breaking&quot; is that same tension for all spokes on one side of the rim or every spoke on the rim needs to be same tension?
If i set same tension i will loose dishing, so if i say use 181 mm spokes on one side and 184mm spokes on other side then i can set equal tension and rim still be centered over center of fork?
1600N is a lot. Check your rim’s specification, most rims are limited to 1200N. You can go slightly above the 1200N, especially since pressurizing the tyres will de-load the spokes by 50N or so.
The non-drive side will end up somewhere around 700–800N.
The most important thing is that you don’t have single spokes with very low or very high tension. In an asymmetric wheel ideally you’d have all spokes on each side at the same tension.
Using longer or shorter spokes won’t really change anything of this. The problem is simply that the spoke angle on the drive-side is steeper to make space for the cassette sprockets while keeping the rim centered.