Race Face chased seconds to come in first with all-new carbon mountain bike wheels that offer the right kind of compliance.
Click to email a link to a friend With the new Era carbon MTB wheels, Race Face was hell-bent on making the best mountain bike wheels by being second-best in key parameters. If that sounds like an odd way to go about it, keep reading, it’ll all make sense.
Now they’re taking all of that experience and applying it to the Era carbon wheels. Developed over three years and 5,300 hours of riding, they’re aimed at the “shore to the core” trail/all-mountain rider to balance lightweight and stiffness, but also compliance and durability. Basically, they had to be…Compliance is the hot topic in mountain bike wheels, so we’ll start there.
To do this, the Era carbon rims have different rim depths and profiles from front to rear. The front is 18.6mm deep, rear is 22.6mm deep. They’re built with 28 double-butted spokes per wheel, with different spoke lengths front and rear, but the same length on both sides of each wheel. Spare spokes are included, and they’re standard spokes you can find at most shops in a pinch.Race Face’s Vault Hubs have been at the center of their mountain bike wheels for years and they’re great. The custom internals put the pawls on the outer circumference of the oversized shell, with a giant ratchet ring on the freehub body itself.
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