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More about the Trail Pro Carbon.
The Bicycle Wheel Warehouse Trail Pro Carbon rim is an exceptional, all around option, from light weight XC riders, to more aggressive everyday trail riders, and everyone in between. Same as with our aluminum alloy Trail Pro, the Trail Pro Carbon rim offers a veratile 23mm inner profile, at an incredible value. The outer rim width is 29mm, the rim height is 31.5mm tall. The overall "squared" rim design creates tons and tons of lateral stiffness, helping you place your line with precision and confidence, even at high speed.
You have the choice to build these wheels with Speed Tuned Super 6 2.0 MTB hubs, or go all out with DT Swiss 350 disc hubs featuring the DT Swiss Star Ratchet engagment mechanism. Both are great options. The Speed Tuned Super 6 2.0 hubs feature 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.
DT Swiss 350 hubs are excellent, they are finished to incredible standards, and include DT Swiss' Star Ratchet engagement system, (same exact drive mechanism as with their DT 240's and 180's). These hubs get the job done, hold up extremely well in an assortment of conditions, and have proven reliable even in the emerging context of high torque drive trains, (29er wheel bikes with 1x12 Eagle drive trains). Essentially, DT 350's offer you the option of buying one of the best performing hubs available anywhere, for only a modest price bump. Given their huge value proposition, they are hands down a great option for any MTB rider that cares about their gear.
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.
Wheel Facts:
-Comes with rim tape installed, please note that these rims are Not Tubeless ready.
-The Trail Pro Carbon is 31.5mm tall, 29mm wide, with a 23mm inner width, and weighs just under 400g on average
-Recommended for use with 27.5" / 650b x 2.0 - 2.4" tires
-These wheels are built with an emphasis on consistent spoke tension and finished to exacting standards.
-Wheel set weight with Super 6 2.0 15/142 hubs and alloy nipples is approximately 1670g (Comp) or 1595g (Dlight); with DT 350 hubs wheel set weight is approximately 1705g (Comp) or 1630g (Dlight). Wheel set weight will vary with end caps, freehub driver, and nipple selection. Tape + Valves adds approximately 35g-40g for the wheel set, on average.