44mm Carbon Clincher Front Wheel

Do you live where there just are no flat roads? No problems here, let’s go climbing! The 28mm clincher is your ultra-lightweight wheel out of the Boyd compound. It’s a 1480-gram, super snappy, tubeless-ready wheelset paired to our 85 Road Hub and ready for any road you can find, especially if it has a steep climb ahead.

Climbers will love this wheel! I mean, what’s not to love? A lightweight carbon fiber wheelset designed for wider tires and strength not only for climbing, but also a fast descent! Who doesn’t like hitting high speeds coming off the effort of a big climb? We sure do!

Oh just lighten up! When the tarmac points to the sky, arm yourself with the ultimate weapon – Boyd 28mm carbons. We also know that which goes up, must come down so we made sure these svelte wheels still had the width for wider tires and the strength for all out descents! When every gram counts, count on these.

For every day and every road. This disc brake specific carbon clincher wheel meets & exceeds the demands of the modern do-everything road bike.
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Designed from the ground up to harmoniously function as a system with modern disc brake road bikes. The enormous 29mm external & 22mm inner hooked rim width gives 25-30mm tubeless or tubed road tires a voluminous shape that enhances ride quality, increased traction, which provides more comfort for those long days in the saddle. This handcrafted wheel is laced with double-butted j-bend spokes and brass nipples and features a 2.8mm spoke offset to ensure better spoke balance. Two cross lacing pattern built to withstand high-torque loads, and a 36mm rim depth provides aerodynamic gains. This wheel spins Boyd Quest disc brake hubs that feature five degrees of engagement, quick swap freehub body, press-fit end caps and is compatible with Shimano, Sram and Campagnolo cassettes. This disc brake specific wheelset weighs in at 1640g and is for every day and every road.

It may be easier to ask, “What can’t this be used for?”. If you like to take your bike and ride everywhere, then the 36 is that all around great option. Equally at home on blustery beach front roads and in the high mountains. With the large 22mm internal width, you can even throw some gravel tires on and go play in the dirt a bit. Note that if you are looking for a pure dedicated gravel wheelset, the Pinnacle Hookless may be a better option

Basically, use these wheels as the set you aren’t going to ever want to take off your disc brake road bike.

You want a wheelset that was specifically designed around the demands of riding with disc brakes. This is not a rim brake rim that has been laced to a disc brake hub in order to be “good enough”. The shape, with, depth of the rim was all designed to work together with the disc brake hubs and the forces going into the new disc brake bikes.

Ride crosswinds, climb mountains, and then fly down the other side with a huge grin on your face. Rinse and repeat for best results!

Altamont Lite - Shave Weight, Not Strength!

The biggest question we get, "What is the difference between the Altamont and the Altamont Lite?".

With the Altamont, the focus was on a semi-aero alloy rim shape. A rim that keeps you rolling on the flatter to rolling terrain. Well, for a lot of us, weight savings is more important that a bit of aero gain. The Altamont Lite excels here, taking a 5mm shallower rim (25mm deep versus 30mm). We were able to make a wheelset with the same strength, same durability, same spoke count options, and shave 90 grams of rotating weight over the deeper Altamont version

Welded and ground seams provides exceptional braking performance. Extra deep anodization hardens and strengthens the rim. The result is a wheelset perfect for training, hilly terrain, or gravel and CX riding.

Use the Altamont Lite for rides where the speeds are not as high and weight savings becomes more important that every gram of aero drag. This means your hilly rides, cyclocross events, gravel rides. . . or just lighten up your bike in general. 

Being an alloy wheelset, this is priced much more budget friendly than a comparable carbon set, so this can make a great upgrade to an stock wheelset that you just can't get very excited about.

You want to ride in hilly terrain or go out for some great gravel rides. Use as a tubeless ready cyclocross wheelset with a rim bed designed to lock in tubeless tires at lower pressures. 

If you have a nice newer disc brake bike, yet it feels sluggish and boring whenever you hop on, this set is just the energization you need!