Offside/Nearside

[Simon Favre <simon@domain.elided>]

The thing about real knock-off hubs is that they all tighten OPPOSITE
the direction of rotation of the wheel. This is so that if the spinner
gets hit by something while driving, it won't undo the spinner, causing
the wheel to come off. This means the ones on the left side of the car
are right hand threaded, and the ones on the right side of the car are
left hand threaded. Note that this is the opposite of the way LH/RH lug
nuts were done on the 50's and 60's Alfas. Lug nuts were tightened in
the same direction as the wheel rotation. Trust me on this. My race car
has Boranni wire wheels. The Fiat 1100 hubs underneath the splined hubs
have lug bolts that go the opposite way as the spinners.

You always mount a horse from the left side. Even a city slicker like me
knows that. Remember also that the British drive (and rode) on the left
side of the road. In that case, the left side of the horse is the one
NEAR the sidewalk. Single riders may not have parallel parked, but carts,
carriages and wagons sure did. Now if the British were truly perverse, a
domestic (UK) model would have had the LEFT side hubs marked NEAR, but on
an export (US) model, the RIGHT side hubs would have been marked NEAR.

"There is an extreme danger of explosion storing warheads in an inverted 
position. Accordingly, all warheads have had their tops labeled "bottom"
and their bottoms labeled "top".   --- British Admiralty, WWII

;=)

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