Ripple Series – Wavy-lines Supreme Road Bicycle Carbon Rim

For the first time we apply a new appearance design to the road bike carbon fiber rim — Ripple Series. When riding, especially at high speed, the wavy lines on the surface of this rim can disrupt the air flow around the rim, thereby reducing wind resistance and increasing speed. At the same time, this is also the first time we apply Toray T1100 carbon fiber to manufacture road bike rims. Toray T1100 generally has a higher tensile strength than T800 or T1000 carbon fiber. The addition of T1100 carbon fiber material provides us with a foundation to further reduce the rim weight.

All Ripple Series rims are 700C (622mm BSD).

For top-level road bike rims, it is different from mountain bike rims. Light weight is not the primary goal for road rims. The goals of road rims are to achieve a balance between optimizing the weight of the rim and ensuring a certain rotational inertia, excellent dynamic balance, sufficient stiffness to make the rim achieve a smaller deflection, better wind-breaking performance to increase riding speed, and greater strength. The newly launched Supreme Edition Ripple 40 and 50 carbon road bike rims embody our revolutionary solution, incorporating multiple core technological innovations.

Core Innovations

1. Material Upgrade: Toray T1100 Aerospace Grade Carbon Fiber Added, Rim Gets Lighter.

Ripple Series is the first NEXTIE rim family to use Toray T1100 aerospace-grade carbon fiber as its main structural material. T1100's higher tensile strength compared to T800 or T1000 allows us to reduce the wall thickness at non-stress-critical zones without sacrificing stiffness or impact resistance, directly translating into lower rim weight.

2. Rim Surface Spoiler and Aesthetic Improvement Design: Wavy Lines.

For the first time we apply a new appearance design to the road bike carbon fiber rim — Ripple Series. When riding, especially at high speed, the wavy lines on the surface of this rim can disrupt the air flow around the rim, thereby reducing wind resistance and increasing speed.

3. Newest Layer-up Structure: All-wrapping Technology for Main Carbon Fiber Structure Make Rim Stronger.

All-wrapping Technology (AWT) for main carbon fiber structure applied on Ripple Series rims further improves the stability and stiffness. AWT ensures the integrity of the carbon fiber material, thereby ensuring the rim's stability and stiffness. AWT is also applied on our road bike rims of Alpha series and Ocean series.

4. Highly Strict Technical Test Methods — 100J (UCI test condition).

We applied the UCI test conditions to test Ripple Series carbon rims. The impact test result was 100J, which is a high value for a road bike rim. This is much higher than the UCI's baseline strength requirement for road bicycle rims. IMPACT TEST VIDEO.

Beyond these core innovations above, Ripple Series carbon rims incorporate numerous advanced manufacturing techniques including precision carbon fiber cutting, optimized mold materials, refined production processes and wheelset temperature test under 80 ℃ for 4 hours - collectively establishing Ripple Series carbon rims as the ultimate road bike competition-grade product.

This rim could be used for Road, Triathlon, Cyclocross, Dirt, Gravel and Adventure riding. The tire size for this model of rim is recommended at 28 ~ 53mm Road | 28 ~ 40mm Cyclocross | 28 ~ 60mm Gravel. The tire pressure is recommended at 30 ~ 90psi Road | 25 ~ 54psi Cyclocross | 27 ~ 79psi Gravel.

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