WTB 7 speed wheelset in the PNW
09-22-19, 03:26 PM
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WTB 7 speed wheelset in the PNW
I am taking a flyer here, thanks to forum member @tricky I have come into a Allez that is complete except for a wheelset. I am looking for a vintage 7 speed set with 700c rims and could go for either a cassette or FW rear hub, anyone have something they are willing to part with? I am in Seattle but travel to Spokane and Portland occasionally ideally I would like to find something in the hour from home range, or closer. Thanks for looking
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09-23-19, 12:36 PM
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@ryansu - HB looks bent. Check frame alignment prior to wheel install. If I was closer... I have a 7 spd Dura Ace I don't plan on using.
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@ryansu - HB looks bent. Check frame alignment prior to wheel install. If I was closer... I have a 7 spd Dura Ace I don't plan on using.
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IIRC, the 7 spd Dura Ace hub with the cassette is really unique and difficult to find parts. My 8 speed 7402 has a bad cone, I have not been able to find a replacement. The issue is the design of the cone contributing to the sealing system, making it unique. Like many DA parts, once they are out of production, good luck because they change the design every version without using old part designs. Like what they designed the last time around wasn't good enough for longevity and to H.... with support of parts.
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IIRC, the 7 spd Dura Ace hub with the cassette is really unique and difficult to find parts. My 8 speed 7402 has a bad cone, I have not been able to find a replacement. The issue is the design of the cone contributing to the sealing system, making it unique. Like many DA parts, once they are out of production, good luck because they change the design every version without using old part designs. Like what they designed the last time around wasn't good enough for longevity and to H.... with support of parts.
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GTK I am trying to avoid setting myself up for having to find specific and expensive parts for the wheel-set and was already steered away from Suntour GPX cassette hubs for that reason, hard to find and expensive cassettes and the splines only play with Suntour, I hope to find some nice Shimano 600 or 105 hubs or maybe I will stick to a Free wheel hub, we'll see what comes up. Thanks for the tip.
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Any chance you are considering building a wheelset and interested in Uniglide? Here's a hubset (with spares) from @hazetguy
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Ok I guess I can mark this as "Bought" I had been scouring local CL and FB market place for deals on complete bikes with 700c wheelsets and stumbled on a late 70s Takara that had been upgraded to 700c wheels, I could tell from the CL photos that they were Mavic rims (open pro as it turned out) so I figured the hubs were probably something I would recognize maybe Tiarga? The bike was $75 so I went last night to look. SCORE
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09-28-19, 08:28 PM
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The freewheel has to be a suntour accushift model if you want your gpx shifters and rd to index. The spacing for them doesn't work on shimano style freewheels.
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Nice! Those Ultegra+Open Pro wheels used to be what everyone recommended on the road forum when you wanted a set of replacement wheels.
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That’s a good score. I’m interested to hear from the Shimano gurus on this one. I would have thought by the time 600 morphed to Ultegra it would have been 100% freehub/cassette.
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bike.A cassette hub will usually have an asymmetric bulge for the freehub mechanism but I’m not a Shimano guy. This is a pic of a 600 with a 9 speed cassette on my kids old bike.
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At the risk of putting too fine a point on it, by the time Shimano got to 10-speed, Ultegra hub shells were so large that the mounting bolt for the freehub no longer made a bulge:
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Indeed we have beat this one pretty well. Makes sense. I kind of thought that might be the case when I looked at the diameter of my 600 hub.
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