HED Adds Disc Brake Road Wheels, Introduces Made-in-USA Vanquish Aero Clinchers
HED’s Stinger 5 carbon tubular and Ardennes alloy tubulars and clinchers will now have a disc brake hub option. They teased these a while back, but now they’re in stock and shipping. Both use CenterLock hubs and can be had with Campy or Shimano/SRAM freehub bodies.
Stinger Disc is $2,100 and Ardennes are $1,300. Both use the same rim as their standard models, so you could run calipers if you need to…
The Stingers come in at a claimed 765g and 864g. The Ardennes tubular is 721g and 839g, expect the clinchers to be slightly heavier.
The Vanquish is an all-new aero clincher wheelset that uses a 60mm deep carbon rim that’s made in-house in Minnesota. It uses the Stinger profile but gets a little higher quality carbon. Wheel weights are 670g and 873g, retail is $2,500.
Rim is nice and wide.
The alloy Ardennes LT gets a makeover with all black DT Swiss bladed spokes and HED’s black alloy hubs. Now, if they could just black out those rim logos…
Comments
Great rims but HORRIBLE hubs. I can’t think of a better wheelset that HED C2 rims on DA7900 hubs with DT Aerolites or DT Revolution spokes.
HED please use a cup and cone hub!
@Dans…you solved your own problem…if you hate the hubs…buy the rim and build what ever combo you want…
I’ve heard a lot of complaints on their hubs, but I have 4 sets of their wheels which all see CX use by 2 different riders. All 4 sets are at least 1 season old and I haven’t installed a single new bearing and not one hub has needed to be adjusted. I’ve broken a few spokes, but even then the wheels were surprisingly true.
What’s the rear spacing – 130 or 135?
I concur with the hubs. I have a pair of Ardennes SL, Ardennes FR, and Stinger 4′s. All needed new rear bearings within 8 months. I ride/race a lot, but I barely weigh 130 and treat these things with TLC. Beyond that they ride like a dream.
Matt – just heard back from HED, it’s 135mm rear spacing on the disc hubs.