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@Kimmo
For some reason, Mavic hubs were 11s compatible before 11s was a thing - they'd come standard with a spacer on there.
Bit weird, jumping the gun like that; dunno why you'd intentionally add unnecessary dish for several years. I went to a fair bit of trouble to go the other way on a RS80 wheelset - fitted a 7s cassette body and bumped up the OLD to 132, and machined a slice off the back of a billet 10s cassette.
Not that the wheel really needed to be any stronger for my weight, it was more just to illustrate how lazy Shimano was in establishing all those spacing dimensions, let alone Mavic. I was able to add a couple of turns of NDS tension, so the wheel could have been designed even lighter around my dimensions... Dish is clearly a design compromise, dunno why you wouldn't want to minimise it.