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Carbon bike wheels have brought about a revolution in cycling, offering a range of advantages that have made them increasingly popular among riders. Here's a breakdown of their key benefits: Light weight Carbon fiber is known for its lightweight properties, making carbon wheels significantly lighter compared to traditional metal options. This reduction in weight translates to improved accelera...

We received many inquiries about how to choose the wheels profile, whether 38mm and 50mm carbon wheels. So, how to choose them? Under the same rims shape design, 38mm wheels is always lighter than 50mm. So 38mm should be faster, but 50mm can hold on the speed better. However, if you ride in strong wind, 50mm wheel is going to have greatly affected by the cross-wind. It would be hard to control ...

Using the Quick-release skewers is a good option for road bikes with rim brakes. Today, this is pretty much the only situation where they are better than thru-axles. Rim brake bikes do not have a thru-axle option so this is also a limiting factor. But if you are using any type of bikes with disc brakes, then thru-axle is the way to go. Pros For Quick Release Rim Brake Bikes Easy to install sin...

More and more brand wheelset without rim bed holes design, this is a brief analysis of pros and cons as below: Pros No tape on rim bed Tubeless set up is very easy and robust The complete wheels weight will be lighter Cons Breaking a spoke is more of an issue to deal with, especially if it breaks at the nipple, on a deep section rim. On the other hand, hard to happen broken any spokes on new...

UD, 3K and 12K are just three different weaving types of carbon fibers that are widely used for manufacturing bicycle products. There are lots of debates online about the differences between carbon weaves of UD, 3K and 12K. People who are just new to carbon fiber products may not know much about them. UD is short-term for Uni-Directional. The fibers of UD weave are arranged in one direction, wh...

In recent years, professional racers have gone from 23C tyres to 30mm. Given that they are grippier, comfier, and safer. Many road bikes now come with 28-32C tyres as standard. Even for dedicated racers, 28mm is becoming the new normal. To accommodate these wider tyres it’s a good idea to look for an internal rim width of around 20-24mm. Matched a carbon rim with an exterior a couple of millime...

Carbon spokes is not a fresh thing. As the representative of high-ranking carbon wheelset, carbon spokes have been already applied on the lightweight carbon wheelset for a period of time. At the beginning, carbon spokes wheelset is only for professional races. Now, not only for racing, but also be chosen for training. What are the benefits of carbon spokes: Carbon spokes have much higher tensi...