- We got wheels for the new ride.
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And then I says to Mabel, I says.
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Morning, trainiacs.
Check this out.
We got wheels for the new ride.
So a couple weeks ago, I un-boxed this,
the Ventum One, which is my new ride for 2018.
Looks a little bit ridiculous without
a set of wheels on it, right?
And I got everyone to guess what the wheels
and the group set were going to be,
and for those of you that guessed Alto, y'all are right.
So this just showed up yesterday,
and that means that we're going to take a look at it.
I actually don't know what these look like.
So now a lot of people were suggesting that I get Zipps
or that I get HEDS, or that I get FLO Cycling wheels.
A lot of the more common wheel companies,
the hard cores out there, were calling for Alto
because you know how much I like
the Alto road cycling wheels that I've got.
So why I ended up going with Alto wheels
instead of a more well known brand
is because Alto Cycling has really impressed me
with the road bike wheels that they sent.
Basically, the very first time that I put those wheels
on my road bike and I rode the two and a half K
to meet up with the ride group,
there's a couple stop signs in between here and there,
and I would just stand on the pedals,
and I would feel, instantly,
the transfer of the power that I was putting into the pedals
was immediately being transferred into the wheel.
There was no lag like you see in a lot of wheels,
and that's the technology that Alto
really prides themself on.
Here it is, here it is, here it is.
Hang on, hang on, you ready?
Woo hoo hoo hoo hoo.
Look at that.
Would you look at that?
This here is the Alto Cycling CC86.
That means Carbon Clencher 86.
So what the Carbon Clencher means
is that the brake surface here is carbon,
just like the rest of the wheel.
A lot of brake surfaces over the course of history
have still been aluminum,
and recently Alto actually came out
with a video that is blowing up online,
of how much more durable and safe
the Carbon Clencher for Alto is.
Now take a look at this.
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Now what you see is that most other manufacturers,
at high heat and high speeds,
had a catastrophic failure of the wheel,
like that's dangerous stuff.
Alto, however, was able to figure out
how to make their braking surface safe,
even at extremely high speeds.
Now some of the guys in my ride group have said,
does that mean that they suffer braking quality?
I wouldn't say that the braking quality on my road bike
is like absolutely premium,
but it's definitely safe enough.
Like I got no problems with it.
How sexy does this look?
Just wait, the next one's going to be better.
So that's the braking surface,
but the real magic in the Alto wheels
is the stiffness that goes into the rear hub
on the drive train side of the wheel.
I'm the most organized un-boxer you'll ever see on YouTube.
You know when Casey starts throwing stuff
all over the office, that gives me anxiety.
I don't like that.
This is where Taren is going to get super fast.
Nothing
but a glorious
bam, oh oh oh oh.
Disc wheel.
Oh my god.
Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.
So pretty.
So now this here is the Alto rear disc wheel,
and you can't quite see it on this, but hang on,
but you see that flange on the inside of the cassette
on this rear wheel that is my road set?
That's the secret sauce that Alto has figured out.
What this does is it allows them a spoke pattern
and a transfer of power that when you're putting
a ton of power and a ton of torque
on this side of the wheel,
it's not flexing that wheel and causing asymmetrical torque,
like more torque on this side
that actually causes brake rubbage.
It transfers it throughout the hub
so that you get equal power and the wheel stays straight.
So even though this is a disc wheel
and you can't see that inside flange
on the hub of the rear wheel because it's covered up
by a disc, the same technology that goes
into that open wheel is in that disc set.
Uh huh, uh huh.
And 100% disclosure, I didn't get these for free,
I got them for close to free,
but I actually sought out Alto and I said hey, look,
I really like the wheel set that I've got on my road bike.
Do you want to do anything for the tri bike?
They said look, we're a small company.
We don't have the budget to be giving away wheels
to every jerk store that has a big YouTube channel.
And then I says to Mabel, I says,
what would it take to get me on your wheel set
and not have it kill me financially?
And what they did is they allowed me
to purchase these wheels for cost,
so thank you very much, Alto,
but I'm telling you this because I want to get across
how much I like the road wheels
and how much I think the combination
of this Alto Wheel set with the new Ventum frame
is going to be so incredibly kick ass.
This is basically the exact setup
that pro triathlete that Cody Beals has.
So basically I'm going to be as fast as Cody Beals.
Now, are we building this up?
No, not yet.
We still have a group set to get in.
Comment below for what your guesses are for that group set.
There's a lot of people that have guessed right,
but as a majority, I'd say that most of you
aren't quite right, and then we got a big surprise for this.
It was a surprise for me because it kind of came
out of nowhere, but we're going to send this away,
and we're going to get it back looking ever so spiffy.
Alright, trainiacs, there you go.
We've got some Alto wheels.
Thanks, Alto, thanks Ventum.
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