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It was more to do with the drilling. A while back the was a cheap deal on one of those ww rims, forget the name maybe ksomething. The problem was the low spoke count. When I googled hubs with the right spoke count lots of MTB ones came up, so I wondered about converting them and googled some more to find that others have done it.
At a guess (and provided you threw £££s) I think you could get a much lighter wheel set with a modified MTB rear and road front. There's more choice and track hubs don't seem to be designed with weight in mind.
That DT one just seemed like a very good deal. If I built a blingy wheelset from scratch I'd seriously consider this root....but mine would be road rather than track.
No idea, ask in the track forum. My thinking was more that you'll end up with a one-sided hub and changing cogs with an Allen key sounds easier in my head.
Maybe, although logically it should be "safer" *, so I can't see why not.