I've recently bought a Shadow Rant Cassette Hub

This is a used hub right? Perhaps the previous owner trimmed the axle themselves.

The person that you bought it from probably cut the axle. It's pretty common for people who run two pegs to cut off the excess threads from the non pegs side so that the axle is flush with the axle nut. Does it look cut?

It doesn’t look cut but I actually took a look at a hub sound on YouTube out of all things and it looks like mine is missing a nut from the non drive side, maybe the owner just couldn’t find it and that’s probably part of the reason why he dropped the price down so much, the axle nuts were a tad seized but I got that fixed too haha.

I seem to just have a case of the big dumb with this hub

This is the video where you can see an extra wide nut on the NDS

I have the same hub lying around here, there definitely should be another nut on that. they most likely took it off so they could fit a hub guard onto it without having to spread the dropouts. The axle isn't shorter on one end than another just to clarify that too, it's cause it's missing the nut that it comes through the dropouts more than it should

sundaybmxRR wrote:

I have the same hub lying around here, there definitely should be another nut on that. they most likely took it off so they could fit a hub guard onto it without having to spread the dropouts. The axle isn't shorter on one end than another just to clarify that too, it's cause it's missing the nut that it comes through the dropouts more than it should

Yeah I ended up realizing that a little bit after posting.
#thebigdumb

I’m riding one on my cassette bike and replaced the nut with a BSD Jersey Barrier Hub Guard (for Profile hubs.) Works great, and it’s an awesome hub.