The Speed Tuned GRTR19d is a Gravel (GR) Tubeless Ready Disc rim that is still light enough for road. This rim is 24mm tall, 24mm wide, with a 19mm tubeless ready inner profile that's really strong, extremely stable, and at 460g, is still very weight competitive. You can run higher pressure road tube + tires on them, tubeless road, or wider/higher volume CX / Gravel type tires. They all work, and tire mounting occurs with minimal fuss. We build and ship these wheels with tubeless tape + valves installed, but you can always pop the valves out and run them with inner tubes. Valve remolval occurs via a simple loosening of the valve lock ring, takes about 10 secs. If you're into racing (Doh! not that kind of racing), training, or you simply prefer to buy really nice gear, this is your starting and finishing point. That's pretty straight forward.
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We are building these wheels with Speed Tuned Super 6 2.0 MTB (Road 11 Spd) 6-bolt disc hubs, in either a 28 hole or 32 hole, three cross configuration. The rear hub features 36 points of engagement, (10 degrees) via a 4x2 pawl free hub. The drive ring and pawls are overbuilt in terms of diameter, (drive ring), height, (drive ring + pawls), and materials, (quality stainless). Their bearing placement is proper, in terms of overall design meant to promote hub function and durability. Last but not least, these hubs offer both axle and drivetrain flexibility. The wheels only ship with one type of end caps and freehub installed, but additional options are available, allowing you to swap the wheel set in and out between bikes that might have different requirements.
In "stock" form, these wheels are built with DT Swiss Competition Double Butted 2.0/1.8/2.0 black spokes in a 32 hole, three cross configuration front and rear. DT Comp spokes offer legendary quality and performance. If you didn't know a thing about spokes, know that your wheels would come with a really top notch spoke product. That being said, we're offering a spoke upgrade option, in the form of Sapim DLight 2.0/1.65/2.0 spokes. There are two great spoke manufacturers in the world, DT Swiss and Sapim, (in alphabetical order). Essentially, you might be able to find a spoke product that approaches their quality, but you'd be hard pressed to find a company that makes a better spoke product than these two. All their spoke products, from straight gauge to their elliptically bladed and butted products, are all the best of the best. Sapim Dlight spokes will perform at the same relative level as DT Competition spokes, but will shave off approximately 75 - 80g from the wheel set.
The Speed Tuned GRTR19d is a stellar wheel set option, in a field that's composed of some of the best aluminum alloy Road Disc and Gravel Disc rims ever. Given their level of performance, they are an unbeatable deal, (coupon codes here). We're not joking around here. If you don't have a lot of time to research all the rim options in the marketplace, if you don't have a lot of money, and if you can find this product page, maybe that's Magic.
Should you buy this wheel set? Entirely your call. Should you watch this short but sweet rock climbing video? Absolutely. One More Fun One.
Wheel Facts:
-Comes with tubeless tape & valves installed.
-The Speed Tuned GRTR19d Gravel disc rim is 24mm tall, 24mm wide, with a 19mm tubeless ready inner profile that will works with inner tubes and clincher tires, if you want to go that route. Rim weight is approximately 460g
-Recommended for use with 700c x 23mm - 42mm tires
-These wheels are built with internal stainless steel washers.
-Option 1 Wheel set weight with 28 hole 6-Bolt disc Super 6 2.0 12/142 hubs and alloy nipples is approximately 1750g (Comp) or 1675g (Dlight).
-Option 2 Wheel set weight with 32 hole 6-Bolt disc Super 6 2.0 12/142 hubs and alloy nipples is approximately 1795g (Comp) or 1720g (Dlight).
-Wheel set weight will vary with end caps, freehub driver, and nipple selection. Tape + Valves adds approximately 40g-45g for the wheel set, on average.