Hope Ti-Glide freehub - will it fit a modern cassette!?

[konaben82]

Hey Chaps,

I recently picked up a rather mint condition Hope Ti-Glide rear hub for my Trials build and I want to run a road cassette on it, I had a shimano 105 5700 10 speed in my box of bits so I thought I could use that, however it doesnt fit the splines on the freehub body as they appear too small - or too deep in the cassette....? :shock:

I do understand that this hub is probably 16 or more years old (so maybe a 10 speed cassette wouldn't fit a hub from the mid/late 90s as I guess this would have been a 7 or 8 speed back in it's day) but I would have thought that the freehub splines would have been the same width/height - maybe a slightly longer freehub body to accommodate the extra couple of sprockets though...

I'm baffled as Ive been building/riding bikes for 18 years and never come across this before? - AND I have owned a ti-glide like this when I was a teenager and ran a 105 road cassette on it with no problems (it would have been a late 90's 105 cassette - 8 speed)

please take a look at the pictures and any input would be fab!





and a rather mint/undamaged freehub...

 

[FluffyChicken]

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That's useless to you and only works with MTBs that belong me and only then if it has the matching front hub.

Of course if you buy that then well.
Looks like Shimano altered the design of the freehub for that cassette.
Buy one that fits the traditional Shimano setup.
Saying that it seems to have fit on there and are you sure it's just not weight reduction in the spider... Aka I've not seen or used it.

 

[konaben82]

hahaha....

I have a couple more cassettes in the loft so I will dig them out... weird that it's bigger though?

 

[FluffyChicken]

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I just edited but looks like it could be weight reduction if it doesn't just spin around.

 

[cce]

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Shimano experimented with deeper splines on alloy freehubs for a time.

 

[legrandefromage]

Yup, have seen 'spun' alloy cassettes on ti freewheels and they are a pain to get off.

 

[konaben82]

Just tried an old hg60 cassette and it fits perfectly

...what's with the new weird road cassette sizes!!!

 

[mattr]

When they launched 10 speed they used a deeper spline. Everyone complained. So they went back to the shallow spline. Some cassettes still fit the deep splines.
As long as the smaller diameters match, you'll have no issues.

 

[Rampage]

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I have an aluminium cassette that has the same type of deeper splines. It's works and fits fine.

 

[mattr]

Yeah. the new deep spline cassettes are compatible with normal hubs. That was the whole point