Miche’s new Kleos RD vary of 3 high-performance wheelsets are the primary merchandise to return out of the Italian logo’s Race Department programme – an engineering imaginative and prescient that mixes Miche’s lengthy enjoy in high quality part production with the most recent era.
Miche collaborated with Danish consultants CeramicSpeed to design ceramic bearings in particular for the Kleos RD hub, whilst spokes with differential aerodynamic profiles and a brand new Aero Blade hub fairing have been evolved via checking out on the Silverstone Sports activities Engineering wind tunnel in the United Kingdom. The wheels are made at Miche’s manufacturing unit in San Vendemiano, Italy.
Miche gives the disc-only Kleos RD wheels in 3 other rim depths. The Kleos RD 36 is for conquering cols with its low-profile 36mm and occasional weight of one,390g; the Kleos RD 50, which weighs 1,455g, has a mid-depth 50mm rim and is absolute best for all sorts of parcours whilst the Kleos RD 62 provides awesome velocity on flat and rolling roads because of its tremendous aero deep-section 62mm rim and weight of simply 1,560g – impressively gentle for a rim of this intensity.
The edges are built with a brand new lamination made out of Toray T1100 and T700 carbon-fibre, with the higher-modulus carbon bolstering stiffness on the higher-stress spaces such because the spoke holes.
All 3 Kleos RD rims are designed with a retention hook that meets the ETRTO same old and have compatibility with all commercially to be had tubeless and clincher tyres.
Nevertheless it’s extra than simply rim intensity that differentiates the 3 Kleos RD wheelsets. The 2 shallower fashions have an inside rim width of 21mm, whilst the private measures 23mm throughout, designed to offer further balance at excessive yaw angles when deep rims are extra vulnerable to gusting.
All 3 wheelsets do receive advantages, alternatively, from the brand new Kleos RD hub. This now not solely has ceramic bearings designed in partnership with CeramicSpeed, which dramatically scale back bearing friction, however the entrance hub deploys Miche’s new Aero Blade era at the non-driveside flange. This distinctive characteristic has been confirmed to easy the airflow via shielding the spoke heads, lowering turbulence and handing over every other small however the most important watt saving.
For weight saving whilst keeping up power and sturdiness, the hub is created from Ergal 7075 T6 aluminium with a titanium-pawl service.
The edges are laced to the hubs by means of a move/radial 16+8 trend with Miche’s new double-thickness chrome steel spokes. Those have other aerodynamic profiles for entrance and rear and are an innovation that, together with the Aero Blade hub flange, was once evolved in line with knowledge amassed within the wind tunnel.
Trying out confirmed that airflow hitting the rear wheel was once rather other from the ‘blank’ air hitting the entrance: the spokes with their differential profiles have been designed to optimise the drag coefficient of the wheels of their respective positions within the motorcycle.
All 3 wheelsets have the similar value – €2,349 – and include a tubeless equipment put in with a valve. A Miche wheel bag may be incorporated to offer protection to your new favorite wheels when travelling.
And in the end, Kleos approach ‘everlasting glory’ in historic Greek. That’s the extent of self assurance Miche has within the new Kleos RD. The remainder is as much as you.
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