H Plus Son ARCHETYPE rims

New H+Son Archetype rims should be finally available very soon.

Looking pretty nice and specc'd very close to some hard to find Italian and French rims of the yesteryear. I'm thinking of Lambda Strada V,  Omega V and CPX12 for example.

Spec: 
・ model: ARCHETYPE (AT-25)
・ height: 25mm
・ weight: 450g
・ material: G609alloy
・ size/drillings: 700c, 28/32h  
・ colors: hard anodized / polished / matte black anodized

http://hplusson.com/

Cyclope Paris x Rigida DP18

Some new limited edition colored Rigida DP18 rims from Cyclope Paris, and for a good price too. If you visit them, make sure to pic some up. I would, anyway.

H+Son EERO // Soon Come

"Eero, the new rim from H Plus Son is a deep section rim designed to take abuse. Expect the same high quality workmanship you find on Formation Face and SL42.

Coming relatively soon, promise."

In Stockholm

Second Generation Dodici Rims

A first test batch of the new 2. Gen Dodoci Deep Aero rims seems to have arrived. 

At the 768 gr. they will be slightly heavier that what the new Velocity B43 should turn out to be once those become available, if any of that makes any difference to you. 

The Aero Rim Wars: For Just 1mm More

This is pretty funny. As there's been recently so much competition emerging in the field of aero track/fixed rims, Velocity have decided to step up their game. 

Velocity's President John Black talks about their new rim model, the B43:

"If all goes as planned, they should be readily available this spring.... I hope. It is called the B43, because it is 43mm tall, making it 1mm taller than our very worthy and formidable competition."

Now let me just copy+paste that once again:

"...making it 1mm taller than our very worthy and formidable competition..."

Is he serious? Aussies are known to have quite particular sense of humor. But if he is, WHO CARES?! 

I don't. And just for the record. I'd much rather support H+Son or Dodici. Or get some vintage Campagnolo or Zipp rims or whatever. 

This remarkable news was picked up from http://ecscorchers.blogspot.com/ 

Mavic NOS Rim Treasure Trove

If you're looking for some nice & pretty much impossible-to-find NOS clincher rims such as Mavic CPX 12, CPX 14, CPX 30 or MA40 CD, you might want to check out the brand new RetroNOS blog right here. His prices are pretty damn good too. 

H+Son 650c w/ Gran Compe

Nice wheels for sale at Rene's blogshop:

"When used with a 700c standard size fork, you will be able to spin the handlebars around, without the tyre hitting your down tube."

Very funny. 

H+Son In Rainbow Colors

Whoa! Pretty over-the-top but I do like that. Original pic here.

More Super Deep Aero Rims: Dodici *

Even when the H+Son rims debate is still going on, maybe it's time to introduce yet another new brand of super deep aero rims for your fixed gear bike. Jacopo and the people behind the Vintage Pista blog are from Italy and they've recently produced their own brand of Dodici deep aero rims: 

"More than 40mm height, Incredible Hulk-like strenght, 32 and 36 holes!

Only 1662 grams per set.

Available in powder coated black, white and now also in uncoated rough finish"

If I'm correct, the rims are manufactured in Italy and what's also pretty interesting is the fact that, again I might be wrong here, but the rims appear to be modeled after the legendary and hard-to-find Gipiemme Tecno 416 rims of the 1990s. Ok, Dodici rims have more spoke holes than 416s but still. 

On the other hand, the sellers are comparing their rims to Campy Shamals and and I guess the weight is on the same range between these two. In any case, Dodici rims are bit heavier than Deep Vs, DP18s or H+Sons so maybe they really are strong as well, who knows. 

My man Lauri will be lacing up a pair of these rims very soon and I'm interested in seeing how they will look like in real life. 

You can order directly from the blog or from the Ebay, where they are selling ready-laced wheels too. 

You might want to also check out the Vintage Pista blog because they seem to have quite lot of other interesting stuff for sale there as well, vintage Italian track frames and the like...

Real Taco'ed Rim

Ok, yo'all know already about the whole discussion going on all over the web about that one H+Son rim that split. I personally only want to point out that maybe you should not judge a new product entirely based on one individual defective item and incident. 

Or am I wrong in this? I guess time will tell. If more of these start popping up, then we need to re-evaluate this case but until then here's the most on the point comment I've come across yet: 

"It does look thin but that doesn't mean it's not a good rim. That was not from skidding. You hipster's getting all hard core pulling the circus/bmx tricks under some over-pass on gear designed to be used for other purposes should stop bitc*ing about it. It's pretty funny reading post's from hipsters with no mechanical or engineering background giving negative comments about gear they're misusing."

UPDATE!

Here's actually the manufacturer's response to John Prolly's blog post which he has not, yet at the time of writing this, approved to be published there:

"This is my response on the prolly blog. But I see he has yet to approve it.
I high doubt this rim snapped in half by itself causing the inner tube to be cut. I'm leaning towards the fact that it must be some outside force as you can see the sidewalls are clearly dented.

Anyways here is the response:

There has been no official H Plus Son reply as we have yet to see the rim in person.
The "official reply" that people are posting, is in fact a few weeks old, and is not a response to this rim.

Prolly the rim isn't half the weight of a Deep V, they are about the same: 580 grams.

The tire well of these rims is made to the same specs as the many other road rims we manufacture. They are 0.8, plus or minus 0.1 mm

We are a new brand. But the factory has been making rims for the past 10 years. We make about 6-7 million rims each year and about 2 million of them are double walled.

We don't want to piss anyone off, nor do we want to push responsibility onto someone else. But please we think there needs to be more investigation into the real problem of this before pushing the blame onto one party.

We have asked for the customer to send us their address and phone number and a representative will go and inspect the rim.

If for some reason the rim did not rip apart and cut open the inner tube, we believe we reserve the right to take this a step further in clearing our name"

You can see from this picture that the force of a exploding inner tube is huge. This is a posting someone else did on a different blog relating to this issue. These are mountain bike rims mind you.

"Wowza! I had some MTB Salsa Delgado rims fail the same way, although not as epically.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3002/3057218306_9fdaff008e_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3151/3057218132_f274dd180f_o.jpg

The outward pressure from the bead is apparently one of the strongest forces on a rim - who knew!"

(Please note! This following image is by no ways related to the actual incident discussed above that might or might not have occurred somewhere else at some completely different point in time.) 

H + Son Formation Face 42mm Aero Rims. Because I Know You Want Them

You really really really want those rims? Click here. 

Rigida DP18 In New Colors

Limited Edition colors, courtesy of Cyclope Paris. And yes, Made In France. 

Beaucoup mieux que le Velocity Deep V, bien sûr. Voila! 

Veeps In New Finishes.

"Messenger and velodrome proven to be as strong as they come. Now they come in lots of new finishes! Velocity is using a new image transfer powder coat technique. The finishes are powder coated on not decals. 

Deep cross-section for strength, aerodynamics, and reliability. This is a great road racing or triathlon rim! 700C Colors: Wood, Floral, Skulls, Snow Camo, Digi Camo, Flames, and ELVS."

The New Deep V is... H PLUS SON Formation Face Rim. Cos' it's Deeeeeeeeep...

Deeper than Velocity Deep Vs, yes. A bit lighter too. I think we have a winner. If you live in a non-windy city, that is.  Read more here.