GBP Guilty Bike Porn, So close to Pron

Can't find a suitable thread for these wheels. The rim, spokes and shell are made as one piece in a mould. https://www.syncros.com/gb/en/product/syncros-capital-sl-aero-60mm-front-wheel?article=4211360135850

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Holy snapping duckshit.

About time Mielenstein was made to look like last century.

16 spoke rear... And same on the front? I guess because disc.

Dude says, our wheel makes the best use of the material. I assume he's talking about the tubular model, since it's an uphill battle making a clincher out of carbon...

Those fillets where nipples normally go are interesting... It's a great shape for aero, and would be great structurally, except given the nature of carbon it's hard to imagine how they could be all that structural rather than just a blob of fillet on top... If that fillet was hollow with all the spoke's fibres radiating into the rim, that would be amazing.

Anyway, nice one Syncros.

Do they mould the wheel around the hub or assemble it later?

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From watching the vid, it seems like the hub adds tension when it's fitted

There's loads of detail in this review https://escapecollective.com/syncros-capital-sl-aero-wheelset-review-the-best-of-both-worlds/ Allegedly they are the bestest in every way.

Although, all that tech and they're still about 220g heavier than my 50mm tubulars...

Fascinating 🧐
Thanks for the link.

Thats very cool. Would love to see a video of the assembly & demoulding process of this:

These ones are rule 105 compliant with a 28mm tyre. They're fatter and faster,

Kind of like MadFiber but with better engineering and manufacturing.

Wow, half a threadless setup on that old banger! I guess Tom Ritchey was kicking the idea around for a while before it came together... That bike's gotta be what, ten years older than threadless forks?

I remember reading something interesting about those Corima frames; aside from having different sizes of the moulds for the 'diamond', they could move the seat tube bit back and forth along that curve, for a total shitload of sizing possibilities.

That corima is in no way guilty. On the track, spacers are allowed.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp485eVML-0/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

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The slot reminds me of a PCB

Anyone seen an integrated cockpit on a classic steel frame?

Amelio Riva made one piece bar and stem combinations in titanium in the 1980s.

Were those the ones on Passoni's?

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The Ti bike is really cool. For a MGOOF project im working on I'm wondering if I was to fit a carbon stem/bar cockpit (using a quill-to-ahead adaptor) would it look terrible? I suppose integrated is the wrong terminology, more just combined...

Passoni and Riva were two separate brands, Amelio Riva predated Luciano Passoni.
Passoni was more like the Pinarello of its time, very expensive and exclusive, but making a lot of bikes. Riva was like a one or two man shop.
Riva had his own brand and made almost everything from scratch. He had cranks like ee wings. He was way ahead of his time but is hardly remembered.