Hunt expand wheel range
Hunt expand wheel range
Hunt Bike Wheels launched earlier this year with a four-strong range but that line-up has expanded significantly to 12 wheelsets, six for rim brakes and six disc-compatible.
The revised range now included everything from a 55mm-deep carbon clincher to a purpose-built winter wheel. You can see the full line-up on the Hunt website, but here are three highlights we spotted at the Cycle Show.
Hunt Four Season Dura
Riders in search of a wheelset for a winter bike typically have two options: a budget factory wheelset or a tough set of handbuilt hoops designed for the task in hand. Hunt have sought to combine the best of both worlds in the Four Season Dura wheelset.
Hunt are based in Sussex so know a thing or two about what it takes to ride through a cold, wet British winter on potholed roads and the Four Season Dura is designed as an all-weather option for heavy-duty training.
Winter-ready features include a deep-grooved brake track to shift water and grim better, while the brake track is also thicker to extend its shelf-life. Spoke count is increased to 24 and 28 spokes at the front and rear respectively to improve durability (though handbuilt winter wheels often increase this further to 32 spokes). The 21mm-deep rim is reasonably wide, too, at 23mm, to provide a solid platform for a 25mm or 28mm tyre, and, like all Hunt wheels, the rim is also tubeless-ready.
Claimed weight remains relatively low for a heavy-duty wheelset at 1,696g, and a set will cost you back £229. There’s also a disc version with a 24mm-deep and 22mm-wide rim, and a claimed weight of 1,759g for £239.
Hunt Aero Light Disc
The expansion of Hunt’s range has seen the most focus on the line-up of disc brake wheels, which has grown from one to six. The Hunt Aero Light Disc is among them.
Disc brake wheels have a reputation for being heavy (or heavier than rim brake wheels, anyway) but these aren’t – at a claimed 1,449g for the set. The aluminium rim is 28mm deep and 22mm wide, with 24 aero-bladed spokes at the front and rear.
The wheels are quick release but, with things changing quickly in the road disc market, are future-proofed with the inclusion of adapters for 15mm thru-axles, while adaptors for 9mm, 10mm and 12mm thru-axles can be bought separately, as well as a SRAM XD body and converters to a 142mm axle width. The centerlock disc mount hubs are also supplied with six-bolt. Again, the wheels are tubeless-compatible. Yours for £459.
Hunt 38 Carbon Wide Disc
Into Hunt’s carbon fibre range and the Hunt 38 Carbon Wide Disc is – and no prizes for guessing – a 38mm-deep, disc-ready, carbon wheelset with a wide rim.
How wide? 26mm, to be precise, which provides a really, well, wide platform for a 25mm or 28mm tyre (the rim will take a tyre up to 45mm-wide, Hunt say), the idea being that gives the plusher rubber a broader, more consistent profile, rather than a lightbulb shape as can happen if you place a wide tyre on a narrow rim.
The rim, made from a mix of Toray T700 and T800 carbon fibre, also has a blunt U-shaped profile which Hunt say is aero. The hubs have the same adaptability as the Hunt Aero Light Disc and the same spoke pattern is used. The weight? A claimed 1,529g. And the cost? £949. There’s also a 50mm-deep version, also with a 26mm rim width, for £999 and with a claimed weight of 1,612g.