I've built many wheels with these hubs. I used one for the rear wheel of my Rambouillet way back in the precambrian epoch. I much prefer the tight fit of the spokes on those hubs to the sloppy fit on most hubs these days. When the spokes are tensioned, they conform to the shape of the hub flange, and then there's no further movement of the spokes at the flange. No movement means no work hardening of the steel, and no breakage as the spoke becomes brittle from that hardening.
I don't know why Shimano made the right flange wider than the left, but it's certainly nothing to worry about. The difference is about .2mm. These hubs have been around since the mid 1990's. Mine is still going strong. On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM Oliver Moss <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm attempting to lace a Dura-Ace 7700 rear hub (FH-700) with DT > Competition spokes. The spokes will pass through the spoke holes and the > bend will make it through and the head will seat on the non drive side, but > it seems like the flange on the drive side is thicker and the bend gets > stuck. It almost seems like the spoke holes on the hub need to be > countersunk just a tiny bit more for the spokes to make it around the bend. > > Does anyone have experience lacing these 7700 hubs and know what might be > going on? Or what to do? I sort of doubt that these are designed for 1.8 > spokes [I]just[/I] on the drives side, that doesn't make sense, but what do > I know? > > I know there are some super skilled folks on here, so please let me know > what y'all think, and thanks for your time. > > ~Oliver > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/1e2fa609-63b5-4747-8601-63e547992b50n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/1e2fa609-63b5-4747-8601-63e547992b50n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Peter White -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CA%2BD%3DXm9nX76GHX2KnWq9C_iebQasSE716yVdacvvHCaOtyHjUg%40mail.gmail.com.
