It’s def suspicious re: the Zipp.But that wheel is rapidly showing itself to be not particularly viable. Lot of snakebite plates due to sharp rim edges for starters. and the sheer width requires special tires. otherwise the tires spread and you are basically riding partly. the weak sidewalls.

That is the tire maker. their problems are well known. and poor QC on bead tolerance is hardly their only issue.

this is kind of true for hookless road. it is not at all true for gravel. zero issues there. zero.

It’s easy to appropriately label and scale graphs. People do it all of the time. High schoolers do it. Doing as you folks did above is deceitful. Full stop. If that’s how you “publicize” your data, then people are right to question your data.

Hi Marko, Thank you for the note and a great call out. Unfortunately, the 40 Limitless Gravel Aero went to it’s final wind tunnel trip in late January 2024 which was unfortunately several months before the new ZIPP 303 XPLR and DT SWISS GCR 1400 launched into market. We should have been clearer with this in our communication but we are hoping to have the ability to test the 40 Limitless Gravel Aero against those newer competitor wheelsets during upcoming wind tunnel trips and share out the data when we have it.

We appreciate your comments.

HUNT Wheels
Boulder, CO

Hi Robin, thanks for reading and providing feedback. We’ve summarized the data into the graphic you see here, but you can find all of the data publicly available in the research white paper for this project. You can find that on our website, or I’ve linked it here: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0686/6341/files/40_Limitless_Gravel_Aero_White_Paper.pdf?v=1727172966

We appreciate your comments.

HUNT Wheels
Boulder, CO

I realize that a disc wheel in front is affected by crosswinds, and you rarely, if ever, see these ran in outdoor time trials, but a 1-10mm of height should not be affected by crosswinds.

Hookless on off road applications (gravel and MTB) are fine. Pressures are never exceeding 45 psi on your smaller tires and in the case of MTB, the only time you ever get anywhere above 30 is during the initial seating. The majority of the time on gravel, your pressure is under 40 and for a MTB the pressures are sub 20. In both of those cases, blow-offs from the rim is nearly impossible unless the bead of the tire breaks and if that happens, even a tube has a hard time keeping the tire on the rim.

Yes, but taller profile are more affected by crosswinds. Which is why tt’s run a disc in back and typically not the front. That said, a
1mm difference seems insignificant.