Originally Posted by
Iride01
I don't think all 8 speed free hubs will work with a 10 speed cassette. Especially if the wheel and hub was made when 8 speed was the bleeding edge tech of the day. Your free hubs that did fit may have been later models when hubs came with free hubs for bikes with more speeds and spacers were used to let the lesser speed cassette sit at the proper position.
But I might be wrong. I went from 6 speeds to 11 in one big leap and missed all the joys of the tech in the middle ages of cycling between vintage and somewhat modern.
7 speed hyperglide freehubs measure 132mm... 8-9-10 hyperglide freehubs all measure 135mm... i'm sure someone might know of some obsolete design variance... and i recall that there is an ELEVEN speed road cassette made that fits onto an 8-9-10 freehub.. and there may be a 10 speed cassette variant that WON'T fit an 8-9-10 hub...
oh, and i have a rather odd 9 speed Freewheel in one of my bins right now.... a Falcon, removed from a Next Carbon Fiber MTB......!
and then, there are some spline patterns in the DA line that won't mix with....
.to para-quote Buggs Bunny..... what's all the Hub hub-bub., bub? /
i skipped from freewheels to hyperglide cassettes... and got trolled on this site for not knowing about the uniglide removal technique.
kinda doubt adblock has one of the rare variants... 8 sp old style uni's are one of those rare variants.