From Gunnison, Utah, comes the information from the sustainable carbon fiber producer, Forge+Bond. Their new Shift Sequence line of extra inexpensive carbon fiber wheelsets are meant for enduro, all-mountain, and XC. These new wheels use the model’s FusionFiber expertise and are available in at a relatively low $1250 per wheelset.
“We’re obsessed with making high-performance biking accessible to everybody,” says Brett Stahl, VP of Model and Advertising and marketing at Forge+Bond. “The Shift Sequence of wheels inside the Forge+Bond portfolio shatters the barrier to entry for riders who need some great benefits of carbon fiber, the tangible advantages of FusionFiber, and all at a worth level that doesn’t break the financial institution.”
What makes them extra inexpensive?
What makes the Shift Sequence potential is the hub. The Forge+Bond Core Sequence wheels supplied riders an choice of hubs, between the American-made i9 Hydra, and 1/1 hubs, or the DT Swiss 240 hubs.
The Forge+Bond (F+B) Shift Sequence contains a new proprietary hub they produced with Bitex. These new hubs are designed with a 6-bolt brake rotor interface, make the most of a J-bend spoke system, and have an aluminum physique.
The Shift Sequence rims, like the entire rims manufactured by F+B, are manufactured from FusionFiber. The fabric “makes use of lengthy chain nylon polymers because the bonding agent as a substitute of the brittle epoxies discovered on conventional carbon fiber merchandise.”
This course of, in line with F+B, makes for a stronger, extra sturdy product by using the microscopic flex inside the precise composition of the FusionFiber product. In idea, this “flex” permits the wheels to radically dissipate vibration and shock, leading to a smoother journey with a a lot increased resistance to influence.
Recyclability
Forge+Bond take sustainability severely as effectively, as all of their wheels can “really be recycled”. That is made potential by their capacity to reform and remold the nylon polymer bonding agent inside the carbon fiber materials.
For instance, if a wheelset breaks or there’s a manufacturing defect, F+B seeks to reclaim that wheel so it could possibly feed it again to its Utah-based manufacturing facility. As soon as it arrives, the hubs and spokes are eliminated, and the rim merely will get chopped into a brief fiber materials that may then be used to fabricate any variety of thermo-forged merchandise.
F+B is at present making tire levers out of this reclaimed materials with extra merchandise in improvement now. F+B likes to assume that their dedication to shifting the biking trade towards sustainability and accessibility exhibits up within the new Shift Sequence wheelsets. The brand new sequence says that premium efficiency doesn’t all the time have to hold a premium price ticket.
Forge+Bond Shift Sequence Options
- Confirmed FusionFiber expertise
- Efficiency-driven design
- Tubeless-ready
- Forge+Bond Shift 6B Hub by Bitex.
- FusionFiber is totally recyclable
- Made within the USA
Shift Sequence Retail & Choices
The Shift 25 XC 29″ – $1250
- Light-weight and responsive design.
- Hub: F+B Shift 6B – Increase Spacing
- Brake Mount: 6-Bolt
- Tire Measurement Vary: 2.1” – 2.4”
- Max Tire Strain: 40 psi max
- ERD: 592mm
- Rim Outer Width: 31.4mm
- Rim Inside Width: 25mm
- Bead Wall Thickness: 3.2mm
- Spoke Depend: 28h
- Spoke Kind: Sapim CX-Ray
- Rim Weight: 380g
- Wheelset Weight (F+B Shift 6B Hub): 1600g
Shift 30 AM 29″ – $1250
- Steadiness of stiffness and compliance.
- Hub: F+B Shift 6B – Increase Spacing
- Brake Mount: 6-Bolt
- Tire Measurement Vary: 2.3” – 2.6”
- Max Tire Strain: 40 psi max
- ERD: 594mm
- Rim Outer Width: 38mm
- Rim Inside Width: 30mm
- Bead Wall Thickness: 4mm
- Spoke Depend: 28h
- Spoke Kind: Sapim CX-Ray
- Rim Weight: 480g entrance | 530g rear
- Wheelset Weight (F+B Shift 6B Hub): 1832g
Shift 30 EM 29″ – $1250
- Large rim profile and bombproof development.
- Hub: F+B Shift 6B – Increase Spacing
- Brake Mount: 6-Bolt
- Tire Measurement Vary: 2.3” – 2.6”
- Max Tire Strain: 40 psi max
- ERD: 594mm
- Rim Outer Width: 38mm
- Rim Inside Width: 30mm
- Beadwall Thickness: 4mm
- Spoke Depend: 28h or 32h
- Spoke Kind: Sapim D-Lite
- Rim Weight: 530g
- Wheelset Weight (F+B Shift 6B Hub): 1920g
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