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HED Teases H3 Carbon Fiber Tri-Spoke Fat Bike Wheels

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HED Carbon Fiber tri-spoke fat bike wheelset with tubeless ready rim profiles

As we were perusing HED’s new Ardennes road wheels, a little birdy said we should ask about some crazy new carbon fiber fat bike wheels. Good thing we did!

Called H3, Steve Hed says they’ll save a ton of weight over traditional fat bike wheels and -wait for it- that they’ve been running them tubeless with as little as 10psi! Not many other details were given with these pictures he sent over, but they are real and they are likely headed for production. We asked about price, to which Hed replied “If you have to ask…” Basically they’ll be very expensive.

More as we get it, and another photo after the break…

HED Carbon Fiber tri-spoke fat bike wheelset with tubeless ready rim profiles

Think they’ll look ridiculous on a steel fat bike? Get a carbon frame to go with them!

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Mindless
Mindless
11 years ago

How to attach the disk rotor? Service hub?

truman
truman
11 years ago

10psi! Thats far too high of pressure if you are riding in snow.

Ken the Dentist
11 years ago

Will they make 29ers?

LanceAndre
11 years ago

The bead ramp is what has me interested…
Hub service is just like any other hub. And, yes 10 PSI is too high, but I take it that comment was made because they don’t understand fatbike (aka snowbike) pressure requirements, not because they couldn’t run it at lower pressures like 0.5, 1 and 2 psi needed for extreme snow expeditions. Also, the width looks a little narrow, so my initial impressions is that this will be more of a summer trail wheel set vs. a winter wheel where 80mm is a minimum width.

dan
dan
11 years ago

Meh, Rolf already did a set, https://bikerumor.com/2012/04/01/rolf-prima-fattens-up-announces-new-megalodon-fat-bike-carbon-aero-wheels/. Plus there photo shop looks better then HED’s photo shop.

racepace
racepace
11 years ago

looks about as realistic as Lord of the Rings did….we’ll wait for the youtube vid – then we’ll believe

Bender
Bender
11 years ago

It’s a bit early for April fools jokes yeah?

Podi-ummmmz
Podi-ummmmz
11 years ago

THATS SOME SUPER SLOPPY PHOTOSHOP (MS PAINT?) WORK RIGHT THERE.

Bilbofan
Bilbofan
11 years ago

At least Lord of the Rings stayed true to the historical texts.

JeroenK
JeroenK
11 years ago

Anyone remember HED Stalingrad descending wheels? 😀

minnesotarider
11 years ago

HED is based in Minnesota so I think they understand snow riding pressure. They said they can run “tubeless” as low as 10 psi. I dont think other fat bike setups are tubeless compatible. (tubes are about a pound each) And yes it is real including the 6 bold disk hub.

andy
andy
11 years ago

April 1st already?

JonDanger FTW
JonDanger FTW
11 years ago

Can I get them with a Campy freehub body? These would work great on my EPS Moonlander.

Ray
Ray
11 years ago

I think a carbon wheel would be great. At speeds above 20 mph there is a strong gyro feel on fat bikes that needs to be fixed.

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