SECTOR GUIDE |WHEELS, TYRES, TUBES AND PUMPS Hotlines
THE PRO-LITE Como 2012 Wheel hits £149.99, offering hand-built wheels with value for money. Featuring aero spokes and designed to withstand daily use, it’s ideal for training and as spares. Michelin Pilot City Tyres retail at £23.99 pitched at commuters and tourers, offering high-level protection. Michelin’s Protek concept benefits from years in competition and protects against numerous external factors. Protek Max is the durable rubber
Protek Compound specifically designed for the city trekking range which, together with an extra-thick layer of rubber on the sidewall, offers high levels of mileage, grip, and protection
Ison
WHETHER your customer rides road, XC, Trail, AM, Urban, DH, DJ, 4X, Fixed Gear or BMX there is a Halo product for them, says Ison. The range continues to grow each year and items that have been added to the range for 2012 include the brand new 29R wheelset. Lightweight Halo 29R rims laced onto silky smooth sealed bearing Halo XCD hubs make these wheels perfect for the current 29er trail bikes, Ison says. For road riders the Halo Mercury wheels now come in anodised red and blue colourways. Halo will also be adding a brand new (as yet unnamed) Carbon Clincher wheelset to the range.
Raleigh
RALEIGH UK has been building its own wheels since it first opened its factory doors in 1887. Every single after-market wheel is hand-built on-site in the wheelbuild facility in the company’s Nottingham HQ, after which a 100 per cent quality check is carried out to ensure they leave in top condition. Brands such as Mach1, Shimano, Alex, Quad and Alpina are used and the in- house building allows for specs to be updated very quickly. The company offers two ranges; ‘Tru-
Build’ and ‘Pro-Build’, covering retail price points from £16 up to £199 per wheel across junior, MTB, road, hybrid and BMX categories. All ‘Pro-Build’ wheels come individually boxed to offer protection whilst in transit and, giving the opportunity for dealers to easily deliver onto the end consumer without
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against UV rays, ozone and acid rain. The Protek shield, a 5mm puncture protector under the tread protects against punctures in the area. There’s protection against "snake bites" and impact damage, as well as against sidewall punctures. Available in 700 x 32c, 35c or 40c, the tyres weigh 1,050g and have a reflective sidewall strip. The Airwave Road tube retails at £4.99 and is made of butyl rubber. 0131 319 1444
Dirt Jumpers and 4X racers can look forward to the new New H-Block tyres which are rider-designed superlight folding Kevlar bead 26-inch dirt tyres weighing in at only 535g. Steel bead versions will also be available for riders on more of a budget. Ison says there’s plenty of marketing support for the brand, plus a veritable who’s who of well-known
riders sponsored by Halo, including Sam
Pilgrim, Chris Smith, Blake Samson, Danny Pace and
many more. 01353 662 662
HOPE'S WHEEL range has gone from strength-to-strength having started with the the Pro 2 hub built into DT rims and now with 31 different wheel sets on offer to suit all disciplines and riding styles, on a range of rims from NoTubes, Mavic, DT Swiss and their own brand Carbon, all built onto Pro 2 EVO and Pro 3 hubs. They are all built in-house on the latest machines and meticulously hand finished.
The latest addition to the range is the limited edition 1295 wheel-set. These, as the name suggests, weigh only 1,295g for the pair. This weight is achieved without any compromise to the strength and durability of the wheel-set, Hope says, with custom red anodised and etched NoTubes Crest rims with Sapim SuperSpokes. Another popular recent addition is
Madison
SHIMANO’S WH-RS80 carbon laminate front wheel is a high performance product suited to pros and high achieving amateurs. The carbon and laminate clincher rim is lightweight and rigid, with high braking performance with standard brake pads. Weighing 1,521g a pair added carbon reinforcement is applied around the spoke eyelets for increased durability under high loads. SRP is £224.99. The rears retail at £249.99. DT Swiss’ wheel
offerings include the RR 1450 Tricon front wheel
SKS
the need for re-packaging. Raleigh also has its fair share of rubber – around 600 different models. Offering tyres from Schwalbe, Michelin, CST, Dutch Perfect, Diamondback and of course, their own brand label. All tyres are stored on-site in their recently extended, purpose made tyre stores, which has the capacity to hold over 60,000 tyres. This extension and investment was to try and combat ‘supply issues from certain brands’. 0800 096 9060
SKS’ 2012 pump range includes the new Aeron MTB hand pump, splashing a spot of style with high volume pumping, if you will. Aluminium tubed and with a reversible calve head equipped with a clamping lever, it’s suitable for all valve types. It comes with a matching holder and has a maximum pressure of 73psi. The Spaero Alu is another high volume hand pump, with a screw on valve connection for all valve types, with twist lock, pull-out hose and dust cap. The Airkompressor 12is a new high- performance pump for every occasion… involving bike tyres anyway. With a long steel tube
that ensure great volume per stroke, it sports an extra long manometer and multivalve head for all types of valves. It inflates up to a 12 bar pressure. SKS is available from
Chicken Cyclekit, Madison and Raleigh. Contact details for all three can be found below:
Chicken Cyclekit:
01525 381347 Madison: 0870 034 7226 Raleigh: 0800 096 9060
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the 29er wheel-set on NoTubes Crest rims, Hope tells BikeBiz. 01282 851200
18 hole (in pearl white) for £424.99 SRP. The rear is
priced at £524.99. The Blackburn Mammoth 2-
stage pump (£24.99) is a large air-
chamber pump designed for big volume MTB Freeride-style tyres. The double chamber uses the barrel and shaft to increase the chamber volume to pump significantly more air per stroke that the competition, up to 43 per cent more, according to Blackburn. The Park Tool professional mechanic track pump has a smooth operating aluminium barrel, alloy reinforced heads (for Presta and Schrader) and a moulded based with steel foot pads. The 100 per cent rebuildable pump comes for £59.99. For tubes the NuTrak 700 x 18 – 23C Presta 60mm long valve inner tube is a popular purchase at £5.99. 0870 034 7226
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