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In this episode of the Zipp Speed Podcast, we gathered top experts from Zipp to discuss our hookless wheels and the technology behind hookless and clarify two recent incidents in the pro peloton. We hope this podcast provides good information about Zipp hookless wheels and tires.

In this episode of the Zipp Speed Podcast, Zipp product Manager Nathan Schickel and Senior Design Engineer John Leachman explain what’s new with the new Zipp Super-9 tubeless disc-brake road and clincher track disc wheels.

Learn the step-by-step details of how we make Zipp wheels. SRAM Indy Factory Engineering Manager Ruan Trouw describes the process from when carbon fiber arrives at the Indianapolis factory to when wheels are boxed up and shipped out. This episode is Part III of our three-part Zipp Speed Podcast series, which is all about how Zipp uses carbon fiber to design and manufacture its wheels.

This is the second episode of a three-part series all about carbon fiber. Part I looked at the basic properties of carbon fiber. Part II focuses on designing carbon wheels, and Part III will examine manufacturing with carbon.

It’s time for Part II of our All About Carbon Zipp Speed Podcast Series. In this episode, Zipp design engineers Aaron Packard and Ben Waite discuss the potential and challenges of designing carbon fiber bicycle wheels. Aaron focuses on mountain bike wheels and Ben on road wheels. Also, please listen to Part I on the Basics of Carbon.

This is the start of a three-part series all about carbon fiber. Part I looks at the basic properties on carbon fiber, Part II focuses on designing carbon wheels, and Part III on manufacturing with carbon.

Zipp is famous for designing and making deep section carbon-fiber bicycle wheels. But what exactly is carbon fiber? What are properties of carbon fiber? What is resin? Beyond bikes, what other industries use carbon fiber?

For starters, this is how Merriam-Webster defines carbon fiber:

Noun: a very strong lightweight synthetic fiber made especially by carbonizing acrylic fiber at high temperatures

also : a material made from such fibers embedded in a resinous matrix

Carbon fiber is the main material we work with at the Zipp factory in Indianapolis, so we wanted to spend some time talking about it. This episode is the first of a three-part series all about carbon fiber. In this opening episode, Zipp Design Engineer Manager Tess Denning discusses the basics of carbon fiber and what makes it both challenging to work with but ideal for high-performance components. Tess also talks about how Zipp’s engineering team literally went back to school, taking a graduate level course in advanced composites to provide a fresh perspective on their work at Zipp.

Go inside the wind tunnel where Zipp hones the aero efficiency of its wheel design. The Auto Research Center Wind Tunnel, just two miles from the Zipp factory, is a world class facility that focuses on race cars, scale-model semis and now (thanks to its partnership with Zipp) bikes. Such research is key to Zipp wheels. In this episode of the Zipp Speed Podcast, ARC Chief Operating Officer Henri Kowalczyk tells us all about wind tunnel research.