Announcing a new and improved carbon clincher rim!

Boydbikes is proud to announce that effective immediately all order for the carbon clincher wheels will be built with a new and improved carbon clincher rim.

It became apparent to us a few months ago that our previous factory for carbon clincher rims would not be able to keep up with the production demands. Lead times were being missed and every estimate delivery time kept rising. While the quality of the rim was excellent we knew that moving forward something would have to be done to ensure we received the rims.

We started working with a new factory and developing a new carbon clincher rim. I have personally been testing a few wheels with this new rim and so far everything has passed through the torture test I like to put all products through (this includes a lot of treacherous dirt road riding). All was set to release the new carbon clincher wheels in Q1 2011.

Then our previous factory ran into more production delays and we started to realize they would have a hard time filling even out current orders. I flipped the switch and decided to immediately switch over to the new carbon clincher rim. The rim itself is a little bit lighter than the previous version (about 20-40 grams depending on model). It is also slightly stiffer and the braking surface has been reinforced. The previous rim had a lowered braking surface meaning you would have to slightly adjust your brake pads to line up with the braking surface. This new rim has the braking surface at the edge of the rim and has been designed to disperse the heat that can build up with prolonged braking on carbon rims.

This means a lighter, stiffer, and more convenient wheelset for you. Of course with the improvement of the rim our costs have gone up and we are going to have to raise the prices on the carbon clincher wheelsets. The new prices will be:
38mm - $1000
50mm - $1050
58mm - $1050
85mm - $1100

But we are planning on gradually introducing these price changes. They will go into effect on July 22nd. Until then you can order the carbon clincher wheels at the current prices and you will receive the new rims.

Our alloy wheels and carbon tubular wheels have not changed at all and so the prices on those will remain the same.

We truly believe that with the improvements to these rims we can offer quality on par with any other wheelset. And even with the small price increase you will still be paying a half to a third of what it can cost for some of the larger brand name wheels. All Boydbikes wheels comes with a two year warranty.