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Tune wheels

  • 02-03-2010 5:41am
    #1
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,222 ✭✭✭✭


    Read about these in this month's Cycling Plus.

    On sale at racewheelsuk.com

    They're very light, especially the clinchers (1165g for the 25mm version, for the 42mm).

    CP reported them to be slightly flexy (the odd bit of brake rub) but "nothing that slowed us down". Odd, since I thought that was the point of brake pads.

    Edge used to do shallow section clinchers rims but not any more, their shallowest is now 45mm. I'm guessing the shallower rims didn't build strong enough.

    A quick Google on weightweenies suggests that the rims are rebranded Xentis, which I've only heard about in the context of bladed Tri/TT wheels (e.g. here). The site I linked to says "The Tune Schwarzbrenner rims are manufacturered by Austrian company Xentis after heavy design and technical input from Tune themselves."

    I'm not seriously considering purchasing them, just technically curious.


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  • #2
    CheGuedara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,031 ✭✭✭CheGuedara


    Tasty hoops but definitely not worth buying from UK - the 58mm deep set are e1599 from Germany.


  • #3
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Lumen wrote: »
    CP reported them to be slightly flexy (the odd bit of brake rub) but "nothing that slowed us down". Odd, since I thought that was the point of brake pads.

    I'm sorry, but brake rub is a significant flaw in my book. That's the kind of crappy, "let's not say anything bad lest we piss off a potential advertiser" reviewing that seems endemic in the cycling press.


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