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Save me taking tyres off, are Mavic Open Sport single or double eylett ?

Adverts say single eyelets.
https://www.sigmasports.com/item/Mavic/ ... rt-Rim/IAU

Merci. I suspected as much.

Mavic now call this rim (or its replacement) something like 'open elite'. Same old poop in a slightly different bucket? Pretty much. IME these rims do not build well if the end product is to be heavily dished. They are an OK training rim otherwise.

Do you mind me asking.

Do Open Elites build ok into 7 speed cassette hubs as a replacement for MA3 rims.

Many thanks.

It's an existing wheelset I have acquired. I favour MA2's personally. (Got a couple to hand)

Halla wrote: ↑12 Aug 2024, 2:42pm...Do Open Elites build ok into 7 speed cassette hubs as a replacement for MA3 rims?....

the ERD and the extrusion profile are almost identical, but for some reason they seem to build less well. BITD I had problems with dished rear wheels, so for a long time I used 128mm 7s hubs. with the rear RH flange as far as possible to the right. In many cases this involved machining of a freehub body, but I did not see the need for dished sprockets at that time.