SRAM introduces mountain bike wheels

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We’re a bit busy in the office today, so we were going to just run an unapologetic press release about SRAM’s new mountain bike wheels. However, it was so full of hyperbole, that we’re just going to summarise it for you.

Having bought Zipp a few years ago, SRAM has been making some nice road wheels, so it was inevitable that it would come out with some mountain bike wheels. They will come in carbon and aluminium, in 26in and 29in.

They will be called ‘Rise’ – the Rise 40 is the aluminium model, in 26in and 29in and will be out this month. The Rise 60 is the carbon version and will be available in 26in at the turn of the year and in 29in in February or so. We only have Euro prices at the moment. Rise 26 and 29in will be €465 a pair. Rise 60 in carbon will be €1800 a pair.

Oh, and SRAM reckons they’re great. “Every wheel connects you to the ground. But only RISE wheels can carry you to new heights.”

Now for some pics:

First the Rise 40 – nice wide rim there

Here's the Rise 40 in 26in

 

 

 

Rise 40 in 26in

 

Rise 40 29er wheel in 15mm
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Rise 40 in 29in flavour

 

Rise 40 29er hub

 

Rise 40 29in

Weight per pair of the SRAM Rise 40 wheels: 26in: 1710g – 29in: 1840g

 

And some carbon goodness:

 

And now for the carbon. Looks rather similar to the ally wheel.

 

 

More slender hubs and bolt-thru front

 

Bolt thru rear too

 

Weights for the carbon wheels: Weight per pair 26in: 1330g – 29in: 1420g

 

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 22 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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