1926 Douglas EW350 Wheel Offset

[SteveTea]

I need to get the rear wheel of this bike rebuilt after it was stripped down to have a new sprocket fitted to the hub.  Unfortunately no one thought to measure the offset before it was dismantled.  I have seen one post on here that implies there is zero offset, can anyone confirm or deny this please?

[EW-Ron]

I have a stray 26 EW wheel or 2, just eyeballing them they look to have zero offset,
the rims looks centralized between the flanges.

Although I don't know precisely how folks would measure any offset, if it was only a small measurement ?

[Charlie18]

Hi SteveTea. I will attach some photos of a spoked on brakedrum EW rear wheel to this post .  I ran a string line from the valve hole to as near as possible to centre on the opposite side of the rim.   I then measured both sides out from the string  to get approximately 7 mm offset . The brake drum is the larger figure .  Laying the drum flat on the bench it measured 57 mm from the side of rim  to the bench.  Just happens that I’m looking at respoking my rims soon.   Cheers

[Charlie18]

Might be a bit easier to read .

[EW-Ron]

Interesting. I must compare measurements and methods.