The lack of epoxy also makes recycling possible and due to the Fusion Fiber manufacturing process, sanding, deburring or clear-coating are not necessary as the finished product is smooth, beautiful and ready to go. This allows the fibers to flex, and for shock to be dissipated and damped through the rim to improve smoothness. Used by brands like Forge+Bond, Revel and Evil Fusion Fiber’s thermoplastic carbon fiber wheels utilize long-chain polymers rather than epoxy to bond the fibers together. If you’d like to learn more about Fusion Fiber you can check out this Press Release here, but we’ll give you a quick refresher just to be safe. The Fusion Fiber is meant to provide dynamic compliance allowing the wheels to track better in corners and offer more stability in high-speed sections of trail. Fusion Fiber is a thermoplastic alternative to traditional carbon fiber, and one that is fully recyclable. If you missed the buzz from CSS Composites, their new in-house brand Forge+Bond (and a couple others) earlier this year, Fusion Fiber is the latest wave flowing through the carbon fiber bike wheel world. Available exclusively with Chris King’s own hubs and their lifetime warranty, these stealthy stunners could easily go unnoticed, but the devil is in the detail of these sub-500-gram rims. New for 2023, the Chris King MTN30 Carbon Wheels are a high-end wheel option in the all-mountain and trail category. Thanks to a partnership with CSS Composites, Chris King’s American-made offerings now expand into the complete wheelset market and we’re here to share our impressions after some time testing them. Just like their bottom bracket, headsets and hubs, the new Chris King MTN30 wheels are round and designed to spin smoothly while still offering that trademark Angry-bee “BZZZZ” sound. Chances are if it’s a component that requires bearings, Chris King will have an interest. Since the late 1970’s, Chris King has been shipping beautifully polished components that stand out to the discerning bike-o-phile. At the front the spoke holes are offset away from the disc side, and at the rear they're offset towards it, as the freehub moves the hub flange in more than the disc does.Words by Drew Rohde | Photos by Sourpatchįew American brands have the reputation or history of making premium bicycle components the way Chris King does. The rim shape is asymmetric to better balance the spoke forces, with the same rim being used front and rear. The rim is a tubeless-ready 23mm alloy extrusion, sleeve-jointed for extra strength. Weighing in at a very reasonable 1,580g for its £319.99 asking price, it's a chunk lighter than stock wheels you'll find on most bikes under about £2,000. The CXD4 is a mid-level alloy disc wheelset that's available in 6-bolt or Centerlock configurations. On the road side there's a broad selection of shallow and deep, alloy and carbon, and disc and rim wheels. The CXD4 is just one of 16 – count 'em – road wheelsets that Alex is now making, along with 11 mountain bike wheelsets. And if these CXD4s are anything to go by, you should definitely look at them as an option if you're upgrading your bike or speccing a new build. AlexRims knows a thing or two about making rims (the clue's in the name), so it's not a surprise that it's moving into the wheelset market.
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