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We wanted to share these rather nice photos of a customers wheels on his Pegoretti bike - there are no sofas to ruin this shot.

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We were introduced to H Plus Son rims at Bespoked handmade show at Bristol and came away with a sample of their new rim the Archetype. A new brand to us they have been around in the fixie crowd for a while with some more deep section rims and have aimed their rims at a more discerning rider looking for a better standard of finish.

We were immediately impressed with the almost matt finish and virtually invisible weld joint, we're keen to try these rims out and will update when we've built up and ridden these rims. ...[ continue reading >> ]

We've assembled a small team for 2012 of riders who are all co-sponsered - as you can't get far on just a pair of wheels, its our first year to do something more formal so something we hope can grow. We have 5 mtb riders from a mixture of categories.
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Tom  Bell
Category - Elite men, ranked 9th in 2011.
Tom is riding for MSC bikes and Just Riding Along.
Wheels : Tom has gone for the instock racers favorite of American Classic Hubs on NoTubes Podium rims.
Tom was ranked 9th in Elite Men last year and riding full time in 2012.  With plans to race in the UK National Points series and in Europe this season as well as regional UK races.
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Melanie Alexander
Category - Elite women
Melanie is riding for Cyclopedia and Just Riding Along
Wheels:  Mel is riding a 29er this year and we've built up the American Classic hubs on NoTubes Crest rims with Sapim CX-Ray spokes and purple nipples.
Mel finished 3rd overall Elite in British Mountain Bike Series 2011 and is racing in 2012 as well as writing her blog on XC Racer website.
Mels first ride on her new wheels:
"I had a great weekend of mtbing trying out the new wheels. Could not...[ continue reading >> ]

We are pleased to finally be able to introduce our polished rims, after various in house attempts at stripping and buffing over the last year we have left it to the professionals and all our rims can now be ordered in a professional bright shine or sateen finish.

Chris King mango build showing polished NoTubes Flow rims.

Our polished NoTubes ZTR Flows are shown off here on a pair of Mango Chris Kings. Polishing adds £39 to the price of a wheelset.  These instock mango Chris Kings with polished flows are £712.

We polished Jamies rims to get some wheels on the trails

The quickest way to get the new polished finish in use and on the trails was to buff up Jamies mountain bike wheels, hence the used hub and tyres. We've restickered the NoTubes ZTR Arch, unfortunately we won't be able to resticker all rims but most NoTubes decals are available.

 
Bare rims showing a couple of different spoke and nipples colours.
The polish may affect the braking surface on road rims with a machined brake track but this should not adversely effect performance.

Sateen finished rim.
Sateen finish
Sateen is a brushed finish and looks similar as if it were a bare aluminium with visible stroke...[ continue reading >> ]