Technical Stuff — Aero

Invest in hubs, and here's why.

27.5" 29er Aero Alex Rims All Mountain Bontrager Carbon Classic Cyclocross DT Swiss Easton Enduro Gravel HED Hope Hplusson Hybrid Kinlin Lefty Nextie Novatec Pacenti Project321 Sapim Shimano Spank Stan's No Tubes Syntace Track and Fixed TT and Triathlon Tubeless Tune Velocity Wheel Builds Wheel Repairs White Industries XLR8 Hubs XLR8 Rims Zelvy Zipp

Invest in hubs, and here's why.

We've been doing this bike wheels thing for a while now, and there's one constant .... hubs are an investment. Buy wisely, and buy once. A good set of hubs will last several sets of rims. We recommend spending at least as much on hubs as the rest of the wheelset. Why? Aren't the rims the core of a wheelset? As we see it, rims are somewhat consumable. Certainly in the case of rim brake rims, as wear on the brake tracks will one day compromise rim integrity, and they'll need to be replaced. With the emergence of disc brakes...

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White Industries – often the best choice

Aero All Mountain Classic Cyclocross Hplusson Track and Fixed TT and Triathlon Wheel Builds Wheel Repairs White Industries

White Industries – often the best choice

We’ve been building with White Industries products since 1995. In fact, we built a pair from one of the first shipments to Australia in the mid 90s. And we continue to recommend White Industries to our customers for one key

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HED Cycling – always a leader in cycling.

Aero Bontrager HED TT and Triathlon Wheel Builds

HED Cycling – always a leader in cycling.

For many years, the fastest road wheels in the world have been the result of the drive of one man, Steve Hed. He and his wife built up their small business from building wheels in their garage, to a global

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ENVE and the nipple corrosion issue

Aero Carbon TT and Triathlon Wheel Repairs

ENVE and the nipple corrosion issue

We’re seen a few ENVEs in the workshop lately, all with a similar problem, and all needing rebuilds. It seems that the first ENVE factory built wheelsets (or at least with factory supplied build kits) used an internal alloy nipple

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DT Swiss – finest quality and engineering available now at XLR8

Aero Carbon Classic Cyclocross DT Swiss Lefty Shimano Wheel Builds

DT Swiss – finest quality and engineering available now at XLR8

DT Swiss traces a lineage back to drawing wire at a facility in Biel, Switzerland in the mid 1600s. in the early 1900s the first bicycle components were produced. By 1934 products ranged from spokes and rims to dust shields

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