Vicenza, September 4 2003  Campagnolo Hyperon wheels are finally also available as clincher tires and their features reflect Campagnolo's expertise in the field of composite materials.   The cyclist's forbidden dream, Campagnolo's Hyperon wheels for tubular tires are in a class of their own in the field of low-profile wheels. Hyperon wheels for tubular tires have unrivalled performance. The use of composite materials technology saves weight without sacrificing resistance. The weight saving of over 300g compared with most aluminum wheels is felt at the slightest acceleration. Accelerating becomes incredibly easy and one notices that thrust energy loss is practically zero. Spurts on climbs are nothing like what has ever been seen before and speed changing is amazingly easy.

The carbon rims for clincher tires turned out to be much more complicated than expected. It was not a matter of adapting the rim for tubular tires but of designed a completely new rim. The requirements of a rim for clincher tires are completely different from those of a rim for tubular tires. Issues of resistance to pressure, temperature and shock have to be resolved that are absent or at least much reduced in the case of tubular tires.  That is why we designed a rim made from specific materials that could fully meet the new needs. The new Hyperon rim for clincher tires withstands high pressure pumping, high temperatures due to braking and the shocks that are typical of the clincher tire profile.  

Braking: the new braking surface involves the use of brake pads that have been designed exclusively for rims onto which clincher tires are fitted.  

Two versions are available:

Hyperon clincher tire has a structural carbon rim and Record-class black anodized aluminum hub.

All the advantages of a carbon rim at an affordable price.

Hyperon Ultra clincher tire is the non plus ultra of low-profile carbon wheels.   

Both the rim and the hub are in structural carbon obtained from Campagnolo's major experiments with compound materials. In addition to their lightness, compound materials enable the same component to be given different properties. In the case in point, we have made the shock-absorbing points elastic and have stiffened the points where there was no need to waste the cyclist's energy. Using this technology has opened up new design horizons that were until now hidden by the intrinsic limits of aluminum.  

The hubs have a new feature that confirms the Ultra core of these new Hyperon wheels. The ceramic ball bearings inside the bearings. Unlike steel ball bearings, they have greater rolling capacity over time that is four times greater than that of steel ball bearings and at the same time they are harder wearing.

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