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That hub is also really bluntly machined with tiny rads on all those cutouts. I would have at least wanted those edges to have heavy radii or to to be knife-edged on both sides, especially since the thing has been CNC machined so there’s no excuse there. Narrow hub flanges is good in principle but all those sharp edges chopping up the airflow. And get those fricking spoke heads flush. I mean, bro, do you even boundary layer?
Edit: but I do like how skinny they’ve made the axle ends outboard of the hub flanges. Still be eds a rad where it meets the flange but good effort there.
Jonny69
Seems a lot of fuss about nothing. Anybody who has ever used OG Shamals knows that 6 spokes per side is stiff enough even on the rear wheel with a small flange just 25mm from centre. The spokes aren't hidden behind the rim as soon as you have about 1° of yaw. If there is any advantage from closely spaced flanges, it's going to come from replacing a length of fat hub shell with a length of skinny axle extension, possibly with a fairing like EC90s and Xav's wheels. Whatever they've gained with narrow hubs they've surely thrown away with that big fan blade flange.