Blackset Race 26 700C Wheel Set

Description

At I Know A Guy Bicycles, our “Trusted Partners” are more than just brands—they are vetted small businesses that represent the heart and soul of the cycling industry.

I choose to partner with people who take immense pride in their craftsmanship and who live by the same rule my dad taught me back in his shop: “If you can’t do it right, don’t do it at all.” In a world of mass-produced, “good enough” gear, these partners are true gems. They prioritize quality and longevity over quick sales, ensuring that when I recommend a product to you, it’s a product I’d trust on my own family’s bikes.

Trusted Partner: Bicycle Wheel Warehouse

Bicycle Wheel Warehouse is designed to offer a new dimension in the online market for enthusiast riders, aiming to meet cyclists’ need for high-quality wheels at affordable prices. We specialize in offering wheels that use component specifications that make sense, rather than wheels assembled from miscellaneous parts.

Our wheels differ from many other wheels available online. All of our wheels are 100% built in-house by hand, checked, and rechecked for proper spoke tension and wheel trueness. Compare our wheels with those offered by other websites that often purchase wheels and parts at close-out auctions from overseas factories and repackage them for sale in the U.S. as quality products.

These wheels are made using top-quality stuff and are designed to perform.  Whether you want to race or need to commute in style, go for it!

Description:

Blackset Race wheels are our number one, best-selling wheel set of all time, and it’s no mystery why.  Built from start to finish with top quality, light weight rims, hubs, spokes and nipples, using more spokes than many other competitive wheel sets, they’re still lighter, faster, and more durable than most other options out there.  When we began prototyping and test riding them in the fall of 2006, we knew they were going to be a hit.  At that time however, we didn’t know just how phenomenal they were.  Open Pro’s were still used to compare other rims/wheels against, and the market place was still somewhat limited in scope.  Since that time, many other brands have turned their complete attention towards carbon, with mixed results.  Blackset Race wheels have been our focus, and over time we have expanded our Blackset Race rim line up, and have added modern touches to their rim spec, such as Tubeless Ready and wider inner profiles.  Today, they are one of the best riding aluminum alloy road wheel sets around, and represent one of the best non-carbon values in the marketplace.

Now you can select your wheel build hole count, front and rear.  Blackset Race 26 wheels are built using light weight, alloy clincher road rims with an 18.5mm inner, 23mm outer profile.  The number in the wheel set name, as in Blackset Race “26” refers to the rim height.  Thus, the BSR 26 rim is 26mm tall, 23mm wide, with an 18.5mm inner width.  The wide 18.5mm inner profile offers a smoother ride because the mounted tire will have a fuller profile.  The BSR 26 rim profile was designed to offer both weight savings and strength, and employs a “large tube diameter” design concept in order to do so.  Wheels built with these rims are strong, durable, and are still very light weight.  The BSR 26 rim does Not have a tubeless ready inner profile like the 24, 28, and 30 do.

These wheels are built with top quality Sapim Dlight 2.0/1.65mm black stainless butted spokes, and silver alloy nipples, laced to one of the best road hub sets that doesn’t say Dura-Ace that we’ve ever built with.

Blackset Race 26 Clincher Specs

Wheel Weights

(without QR’s or rim tape)

• All options include rim tape and QR levers.

Where is Your Wheel Set Weight?

Not all wheel weight is equal. An 1800g wheel set with a 20 / 24 spoke count may be using heavier rims, spokes, and hubs, compared to the same wheel set with a higher spoke count. When you lower a wheel set’s spoke count, you run the risk of decreasing durability, as well as lateral stiffness, (the wheels could flex and rub with the brakes). All that, and they tend to feel a bit dull.  These wheels start with the use of a superior rim profile with purposeful wall thickness.  So the rim is light weight, but not flimsy.  The utilization of 3D shaped internal stainless steel nipple washers that match Sapim’s Polyax nipples mean that where the rim is doing the most work, at each spoke hole, we’re increasing the surface area in which the work is conducted.  This reduces rim stress, reduces the likelihood of rim cracking, while promoting rim life.  Expect these wheels to feel better, and last longer than your current mid 1400g wheel set now.