Taking advantage of the Christmas break, I finally reorganized the Blackcatwheels.ch blog and the CarbonOne.pl store.
CarbonOne has now become a true online shop, where you can find my full wheelset range, not only CarbonOne wheels, but also custom built wheelsets that I create individually to order.
In addition, you’ll find most of the components I use for wheelbuilding, including rims, hubs, spokes, nipples, as well as detailed information about my services and wheelbuilding classes.
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.
