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Just building a set of rim brake, 130mm OLD rear DT 350 hubs.
In truth am regretting going handbuilt, I used to knock out good solid wheelsets in an hour or two, but lack of practice means I'm constantly tinkering and worrying about these ones...
Anyway, looking at the rear hub, the flange spacing looks really narrow, there's about 15mm of redundant spacer between bearing and dropout, and maybe the same again from the bearing face to the flange.
Laced up, the 'stance' of the spokes just looks narrow.
Chat online is that DT hubs don't really build up very laterally stiff, which bothers me considering I'm a portly 90kg right now 🙁
Cut my losses and go Hunt 4 Seasons instead?
DT hubs aren’t ideal re flange spacing but IMO it depends on what rims you’re using.
I running around on Roval CLX32 21h variants currently and since my back injury I’ve crept up to 95kg. They’re still stiff enough but I suspect the carbon rim is helping that, a 380g alloy rim not so much.
Funny, I'd read opposite re: rims, i.e. that a deeper, stiffer rim will expose a more flexible build worse than a shallow, light rim.
To be honest, comparing to pictures of Ultegra hubs (considered a better example of flange spacing) there doesn't really seem to be much in it, so maybe I'm worrying nothing, might just be proportions making the flanges look 'narrow'.