A hub for aligning a plurality of spokes on a spoked wheel. The hub has a
cylindrical hub sleeve and a hub axis extending centrally through the hub
sleeve. The hub includes a flange-type hub head disposed at one end of the
hub sleeve and extending circumferentially about the hub axis. The hub
head defines a plurality of guide slots, each of the plurality of spoke
guide slots being dimensioned and configured to receive and orient each of
the plurality of spokes along a radial plane of the hub head such that the
plurality of spokes define a plurality of tangent lines around an
imaginary circle centered at the hub axis and that the tangent lines form
a polygon centered at the hub axis.