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@Sam
Afternoon all. Please bear with me.
Been building my wheels for the new fixed gear with second-hand (Maillard, yes shit I know) hubs and second-hand Mavic rims (from separate sources). Front one first, laced it up, everything was pretty much spot on, a bit of tweaking and it's as steady as Eddie.
Next up was the rear, laced it up 3 times to find a complete and utter banana-stylee rim. I just kept bashing my head against a wall thinking that I'd laced it up wrong. On the 4th attempt I ignored all literature regarding lacing, and just tensioned the spokes so they all made a lovely G flat ping when plucked. This made the rim slightly better, but at least I could slot it into the frame now without the rim bashing the stays!
This time I noticed the flanges were rotating 'pissed' when the wheel was spun, and if I looked at the non-drive side on the hub body you could just about see a wobble as well, although not as pronounced as the flange edge.
SO. The question is, why would the hub be pissed?? Could it be a simple case of a bent axle, or is it more likely to be something slightly more serious.
Thanks in advance!
Sam