I picked up a rear wheel because it looked nice and clean and was campy. When I took off the cassette and inspected it more closely, I'm thinking this has never seen the road. It's an 8sp record hub with I think an alloy body. I used a magnet as a test and it sticks lightly on the splines but sticks more in the valleys. Is it attracted to the pawls inside? And the same thing with the axle. It barely sticks on the end but as it slides toward the locknut it sticks very strongly on the locknut. Could it be a ti axle? Then the body has equal splines, so pre-exa drive?

The cassette has a campy lockring, steel. But the cogs have no markings whatsoever. And they are splined as though they could go on multiple-shaped bodies. The whole thing, cogs, spacers and lockring weighs 170g, so ti cogs? Who made an aftermarket ti cassette?

And I love the spokes. They're aluminum and aero from an old German company called "Union".

So I'm thinking this was somebody's very good vintage weight weenie rear wheel. I'm also thinking this is waaaay to nice for anything I own.

If anyone has any pertinent knowledge on this thing, I'd be much obliged. --Greg