Parcours FKT gravel wheels are 1st true aerodynamic gravel race bike wheels, fastest with the latest 40mm Panaracer Gravel King X1 tires...
Click to email a link to a friend New aero carbon Parcours FKT gravel wheels hope to set new Fastest Known Times both on your local gravel tracks and at the big gravel races, thanks to unique knobby tire aerodynamics. With a bulging shape quite different than what we see in most aero road wheels, Parcours says the FKT is fastest out on gravel roads with a 40mm tire. And that fastest tire is the latest Gravel King from Panaracer…It’s a rare feat to design a real aero gravel-specific wheelset.
Parcours isn’t sharing the FKT rim shape explicitly, a bit to protect the time and effort refining this aero gravel shape. But it’s pretty apparent that this is something quite different than most aero wheels, even if it’s just a few millimeters here or there. The 47mm deep tubeless rim is wide at 27mm hookless internal. But it’s not exceptionally wide outside, measuring just 32mm external at the top of the tire bead.The widest point of the rim is 40mm wide but that’s almost exactly in the middle of the overall rim depth.
The Parcours description seems to me to suggest that this narrower ‘waist’ where the tire meets the rim just goes along to support some ‘good turbulence’ that keeps airflow attached to the wheel in the wind. Also, since the rim+tire shape combination is quite similar from either side, both the front half of the wheel with the tire cutting into the wind and the rear half of the wheel led by the rim, both have similarly good aerodynamic performance.
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