Reynolds have used a variety of hubs for their wheels – at one point they were made by Hadley, then White Industries, then a cheap Chinese hub, and now a combination of DT Swiss and the no-name Chinese.
This particular hub was made by Hadley in the USA – I’m not 100% sure on the dates these hubs were used but they’re fairly rare and swapping from the Campagnolo body to Shimano was proving difficult for their owner.
It took a bit of time but after contacting me I managed to find a used freehub body at one of my suppliers in the USA and I had it shipped over with an order.
As is the case with a lot of hubs the Shimano and Campy versions are dished differently. Back-in-the-day there would have been a Shimano endcap for this hub to accomidate this different dish but no such luck with the used freehub body so I made a 2.5mm spacer on the lathe to sit between the endcap and bearing preload adjuster. You can see the thin silver ring in the photo of the non-driveside of the hub.
After re-dishing and truing the wheels it’s now on it’s way back to Masterton for some racing.
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- Reynolds carbon wheel
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- Shimano freehub body fitted
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- The silver ring is part of the spacer I machined
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- The old Campagnolo freehub body
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- The old Campagnolo freehub body
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- Facing the back side of the spacer on the lathe to make sure that both sides are parallel and flat
You’re not wrong on these freehubs being hard to obtain. i’m looking for a replacement hadley Shimano freehub body as mine is about to become useless (cassette has nearly eaten the whole way thru).
reynolds offered to replace the entire hub at my cost, rather than provide a replacement freehub which kind of sucks considering they’re only 4 years old.
Hey Dean
Were you ever successful in finding a new shimano freehand body for these wheels? I just recently bought a set of clincher dv46′s with a campy freehand body and I need to switch it.