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Chris King Unveils Disc Brake Road Hubs, PressFit BB’s & More!

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Chris King R45 Disc brake road hubs and Cielo disc brake cyclocross bike

Chris King has unleashed a world of new products that you suddenly want. Bad.

The new R45 Disc hubs have a 6-bolt disc brake mount with taller flanges than their standard R45 road hubs. They’re built for cyclocross and road bikes but, oh yes, you know it, they built them to handle light XC use, too.

Hub spacing is 135mm and weights are 162g F and 276g R for now. King is still chiseling away inside the hub shell and freehub body, so they could get lighter before production begins in Q1 2013. Pricing TBD. Available Q1 in all 10 colors.

All road hubs as of Q1 2013 will be 11-speed compatible. The change required an entirely new freehub body and axle. Fortunately, they made it work their lifetime collection of hubs – it’ll retrofit to their older hubs, including QR rear mountain bike hubs.
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Chris King R45 Disc brake road hubs and Cielo disc brake cyclocross bike

Chris King R45 Disc brake road hubs and Cielo disc brake cyclocross bike

And yes, that’s a new Cielo Disc Brake cyclocross bike!

Chris King PressFit bottom brackets

After working on the square taper bottom bracket for 15 years and not releasing it, you could say Chris King is on a roll here. Theyre launching PressFit bottom brackets for PF30 and PF24. They’ll include a 5 year warranty and they’re machined in house in Portland, OR. They’ll also offer 24mm adapters for converting BB30 to Shimano standard and an stepped adapter to run SRAM’s GXP cranks. Available Q1.

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Inset 8 headset fits the newer 1-1/8″ to 1-1/4″ tapered forks when running them on a 44mm headtube. Available Q1 in all 10 colors.

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Their mountain bike hubs are now available in a 157 wide, which is being shipped to the Santa Cruz Syndicate for riding on what will likely be the next V10. Word is the dropouts use the same interface as 142 hubs and frames, just wider.

Their ENVE / King complete wheels won a Eurobike award for best mountain bike wheel.

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Tom
Tom
11 years ago

I had to re-read that sentence twice. I almost got all excited for a square-taper King BB!

For the R45 disc road hubs, will they offer both Shimano and Campagnolo like the non-disc version?

Whatever
Whatever
11 years ago

This company simply does not know how to do things wrong! Shimano 11speed should present some wrinkles, but they will just doing it right, instead of fast, like they always do. King is like a HBS case study.

Mo
Mo
11 years ago

ho. lee. poop.

Brandon
Brandon
11 years ago

Thank god! Finally there will be a good PF BB.

Matt
Matt
11 years ago

As much as I hate press fit bbs I’m really excited to see the release of these two bbs. Especially given the fact that King will also have reamers to ensure that they are installed perfectly.

I’m sure the inevitable creaking of all pressfit bottom brackets will come to an end.

Matt

cw
cw
11 years ago

my dreams of lighter king hubs have finally been answered!

Tom
Tom
11 years ago

cw: Definitely, as long as you realize there will be half the engagement that the regular King MTB hubs have. Not as much of an issue on the road with the R45’s, but the quick engagement is one of the things I like best about their MTB hubs.

Canucklehead
Canucklehead
11 years ago

For the quoted weights, the hubs are roughly par with Hope Pro 2’s. The DT Swiss 180/190’s are still a lot lighter (~60 grams, front or rear) in comparison… I’d like to see a centerlock option, in hopes that it’d drop more weight.

blantonator
blantonator
11 years ago

Canucklehead: wut?

Hope Pro 2 Evo Weight: Front 185g (QR) Rear 285g (QR)

these new king hubs are comparable price and weight to dt240’s with arguably better build quality and more points of engagement.

Also, let’s not forget a DT 180 rear hub is $800

El Xombo
El Xombo
11 years ago

Crap. I was saving up for some R45 Campy hubs. Hopefully they don’t drop those.

Evan @ Chris King
11 years ago

No worries El Xombo the R45 Campy hubs will still be available in rim brake or disc.

Canucklehead
Canucklehead
11 years ago

@blantonator:

Yes, 10 gram difference (besides the press release vs reality) at each wheel. I was hoping for an alternative to my 180s.

Echo
Echo
11 years ago

I just want to know when we can get the whole bike?

Ben
Ben
11 years ago

Same here Echo, I want it built as is.

T
T
11 years ago

Evan @ Chris King – Tell us about drillings…let us dream.

RichardBWatts
RichardBWatts
11 years ago

Nice work CK!

zach
zach
11 years ago

Errrrr ma gerd!

cw
cw
11 years ago

Tom – 45 poe is still better then almost any mainstream mtb hub out there save for ck iso, hadley, precision, hope trials. For a lightweight XC application, 45 is awesome.

warthog
warthog
11 years ago

I’d like to know if the front hub will be convertible to 15qr.

Tom
Tom
11 years ago

@cw: totally agree! Just a lot of people I talked to casually about my R45’s were unaware that Chris King shaved weight by lowering the POE. For a geared MTB I would totally go for this setup. For my singlespeed MTB, I would probably stick with the standard, comes in handy for ratcheting the pedals over technical terrain.

Chris
Chris
11 years ago

Are the Disc R45 rear hubs able to be converted to 130mm spacing?

Eric
Eric
11 years ago

Does anyone know if the if the 24mm adapters for converting BB30 to Shimano standard will work with Cervelo BBRight?

Pete
Pete
11 years ago

15mm front hub and 12×142 year?

Chris
Chris
10 years ago

OK, so Q1 delivery has slipped, any update on expected availability?

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