Right now this one is bottoming out a lot.
Right now the tires are really taking all the hits.
So you're go down on the road [INAUDIBLE]
RICARDO SCHEIDECKER: Well ultimately, the rider
has the choice.
We try to do, with all the work also done here,
the testing, et cetera, we try to give as much information
to the riders so they can ultimately take a decision.
This I think we have enough lucidity and intelligence
to understand where we have to go and these were tubeless
is the way forward.
We raced with tubeless already.
We won with tubeless already.
JEFF MEYER: Over the 2020 and 2021 seasons,
Alpina's and Rapide's CLX have amassed 155 wins, including
two world championships.
Moving forward, we want to add tubeless.
So we're going to build on that arrow, inertia and strength
that we had on the tube type versions,
but we're going to add these always on tire characteristics.
That includes grip, rolling resistance and pinch flap
protection.
So, what makes road different than mountain bike tubeless?
We've been doing mountain bike tubeless for years.
Road has thinner side walls in the rim structure,
but the critical thing is that it's at higher pressure.
But we can't just add the tire.
It's that wheel, tire system that makes it work.
It's the pressure and strength that we're
able to put together and give to the rider that makes it
a realistic combo.
When we prove it out in the lab and show racers
the improvements that it actually makes,
it gives them the confidence.
And confidence racers win.
KASPER ASGREEN: tests we do here gives us
so much information and so much confidence
that we have the right setup.
And to have engineers here to help us out,
it's an incredible opportunity to be
able to work with guys like this and to help
us perform at our best.
JEFF MEYER: It's amazing.
We are so in the details during the development process,
because we've seen the whole history.
We know what's behind the scenes.
And then we get to pilot production approval
and we start to realize like, these are really strong.
These are really good.
These are the best wheels that we've ever made.
And then it's confirmed when you see
Stages 1 and Spring Classics, or the Tour, or World
Championships.
There's a moment of disbelief but, yeah.
It's pretty great.
Dropping.
Three, two, one.
JEFF MEYER: Our new impact standard
includes two different strikers.
First, is a sharp striker, which is meant
to stress the wheel locally.
So it's really point loading the wheel.
At the same time, we need to make sure
that the full wheel can absorb that stress too.
That's where our second striker comes in.
We have this more blunt striker, so it's not
point loading the wheel, it's loading the whole wheel
and it's really loading the whole system.
And that's where we're marrying the tire stiffness, the wheel
stiffness, the spokes stiffness, and lacing pattern.
All of that comes together so that the wheel
can absorb as much energy as possible without any damage.
So it took a lot of trial and error
for us to take help in this front
and rear, rapide front, rapide rear.
To get them through all of those four impact tests,
pass them all, along with all the other tests
that we run for all of our wheel models,
it took over 50 layup iterations for each wheel model
for us to get there.
And a whole lot of international collaboration.
We were doing parallel development really
in four different labs across the world.
You're riding along and all of a sudden
there's a massive pothole, the person in front of you
didn't call it out, you're going to be able to hit that pothole
and ride through it.
Each generation of Roval Road Wheels
has continued to get stronger.
So we're now at the strongest wheels that we've ever made,
at super low weights and low inertias.
We've added tubeless to it, making
them another step faster.
Add hooked to it, and riders can run the pressures and tires
that they want, leading to more fun Saturday
rides and more wins.
RICARDO SCHEIDECKER: I know now the evolution
has to go forward, and will go forward,
and we are working together, forward
to get even faster evolution and development.
This is a never ending story.
We will never stop with this.