By the time I started crying seriously in the early 80's, high flange hubs weren't what people longed for. Everything was going smaller and lighter, so all so-called performance bikes had small flsnge hubbed wheelsets, and large flange hubs just looked old tech.... like wing nuts on solid axles....... But now I still can't quite relate to modern through axles and the proliferation of radial spoked wheelsets. Everything just eventually moves on through the years....