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Specialized / Roval ditches tubeless with its new Rapide and Alpinist CLX wheels
interesting change of direction:
https://cyclingtips.com/2020/06/rova...st-clx-wheels/ the second set mentioned in the article are nicely light weight. maybe they think they'll sell more wheels by going for grams over the alleged advantages of heavier tubeless ready wheels. i'd think most roadies would be quick to choose lighter over tubeless given that choice.
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Crust Malocchio, Turbo Creo Last edited by eddief; 06-04-2020 at 11:27 PM. |
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I guess they have to decide which is the lesser of the evils. To limit a buyer pool due to that sticker, or to loose a big part of said buyer pool if pros/races are not bill boarding the gear.
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Why would you do this? How big a difference did it make to the wheel to be TLready?
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Are these rims really almost 35 mm wide for a front rim? That seems extreme, even for disc?
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The only way the industry survives is by convincing people the thing they bought last year is no longer "cutting edge tech." with enough "i need all the help i can get at my age" rich folks out there, the strategy seems to be working, for now... The only logical reason I can think for doing this would be to "fill" the fork, breaking wind (heh) more effectively around the downtube/frame. Last edited by eBAUMANN; 06-05-2020 at 02:04 PM. |
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The inner rim profile looks like they made this to be tubeless but somehow it wasn’t up to spec to be used for that.
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Interested to see if this has any effect on the current traction road tubeless seems to have. I have no plans to go back to tubes after a year of loving tubeless.
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I applaud that the decision was made purely from a performance/weight perspective. No compromises. Good on spesh.
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if you showed me a pic of that rim that didn't have the sticker, I would have thought it was tubeless. Really curious what is going on. Why have the bead troughs if it's not tubeless?
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Maybe even stay in the race until the rider gets where they need to go for a wheel? I know that I've ridden on a flat tire for some distance during a race. It would be good to see tube-type rims evolve with what has been learned over the past few years with tubeless rims. |
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Don't forget that bearings will be loose to allow freedom of movement and easier maintenance
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Nice start. Next, they should ditch disks...
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