Dear reader,
Please note that this blog will now continue under the CarbonOne domain.
Nothing else has changed. The same builder, the same philosophy, and the same attention to detail. Moving everything under one domain simply makes it easier for me to maintain and develop the blog going forward.
You can find the new blog here:
https://carbonone.pl/en_US/n/list
Cheers,
Tomasz
The beginning, project CarbonOne
Exactly three years ago, on January 13th, 2023, I published a blog post about the CarbonOne project.
In fact, I built my first wheels with carbon spokes for myself back at the beginning of 2022. At the time, these were the first carbon spokes available for non-system wheels. In general, this was not the beginning of carbon spokes on the market, as brands such as Mavic or Lightweight had been building such wheels for many years.
So what made the CarbonOne project spokes different? The key difference was the ability to use virtually any hub, because on the hub side these spokes had exactly the same dimensions as traditional steel spokes.
The project sparked huge controversy. Most people claimed that carbon spokes would never work. Today, three years later, practically all major companies have introduced such wheels into their offerings — including DT Swiss.
However, there is one crucial factor that determines whether such wheels will be better or worse than traditional ones, and that is what today’s post is about.
