Valid point about spike windup, but that’s something that can happen any time you spin nipples, like just truing the wheel. I don’t see that as a reason not to adjust dish.
As an engineer I can say that spoke windup on a used wheel is the type of thing we don’t give two shits about. We design it and it’s up to techs/mechanics to deal with this stuff . But trust me, if the issue can be blamed on the the design itself, we’ll hear about it. And techs/mechanics are a hell of a lot better than engineers at figuring out how to diagnose and deal with these type of maintenance issues.
But more to the point (and I hope I’m not misinterpreting what you’re saying, let me know if I am), you consider this adjustment of the dish to be ‘throwing things off balance’ and it will no longer be ‘symmetrical’. Well, the rear wheel is never symmetrical, the spokes on one side have higher tension than the other because the rim isn’t centered between the hub flanges. GG is building their frames in a way that actually allows them to reduce that ‘asymmetry’. All we’re saying is yes, take advantage of what they’ve designed into their frame.
I did comment in response to a comment about your analogy, but never saw the analogy itself, so no idea if it was good or bad. Was just trying give a bit of an explanation of how load and spoke tension plays into wheel strength, certainly not a dig at anything you had said about it.
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