The engineers at Easton appear to have been rather busy. They’re coming out with a carbon, tubeless All-Mountain wheelset, plus new stems and handlebars…
Starting with the stems. The stiffness of a stem is based on the shaft size, so the bigger the shaft, the more it resists twisting (what with all these wide bars these days). The new Haven stem has a 40mm shaft to keep it stiff. It comes in zero degree rise and 55mm, 70mm and 85mm.
Easton’s big story for the Sea Otter was probably its carbon wheels. They use a ‘ballistic’ carbon fibre (their engineers helped invent bullet proof vests…) and they will come in two hub versions: A 15mm/9mm version or a 20mm version (that has a full axle, not just end caps). The bed it 21mm wide for good tyre stability and the wheels are warranteed for two years. The rims are UST tubeless thanks to a clever spoke bed that inserts into the void in the rim wall and mushrooms out to stay in place. The nipples then thread into this. It uses ‘normal’ straight pull spokes.
With 23 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.)
Lovely wheels, seems like these tough carbon wheels could be one of the few innovations that noticably improve both strength & weight. But not your wallet.
Do we really need more stems though? Last time I looked on CRC there were at least 7456 different stems available
Lovely wheels, seems like these tough carbon wheels could be one of the few innovations that noticably improve both strength & weight. But not your wallet.
Do we really need more stems though? Last time I looked on CRC there were at least 7456 different stems available
Have they Shaven some weight off the Haven….
Oooh. New graphics.
The stems and bars look amazing. Love the new graphic look.
I know this is a bit of a niche interest, but will they, by any chance, be doing a Lefty front wheel?
Andy
The carbon wheels with the stencil writing look brilliant.
But the ones with the solid writing look awful, IMO.
The price of the carbon one in ££s will probably be more than the weight in grams though.
Shaft. Stiff. Rim.
*snigger*
Nice nipples.
*Fnaar, fnaar*
nice stems :-)
WAAAAANT.
so. those carbon bars… 170g? and super strong? just how expensive though!
…and where can you buy the stems!?