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Zipp Super-9 rear disc Tubular
With the release of the amazingly fast Sub-9 disc, Zipp really hit the mark for the best disc wheel on the market. Super light, super fast, and super stable, there wasn’t much missing from the Zipp Sub-9. So what makes Zipp’s Super-9 disc wheel different? And does anything make it better?
The Zipp Sub-9 was designed to roll all day. That makes it ideal for longer time trials and triathlons, or courses where hills are in abundance. The Super-9 is a different animal. This wheel is for all-out high-power effort, and that means short, fast, flat courses.
Not your average Zipp…
With the Super-9, Zipp abandons its trademark toroidal (curved) profile and opts for an uncharacteristic flat surface, although you still get Zipp's dimples of course! This makes for a stiffer disc, but to make up for the loss of aero ‘push’ (Zipp’s famous ‘negative drag’), they have made is suspiciously wide. The result is a wheel that seems to power through the air, but which is disconcertingly unforgiving on corners and if you hit even the slightest bump.
That said, the Super-9 wheel doesn’t have the same chainstay issues as the Sub-9, or even the Zipp 1080 wheelset. However, Zipp isn’t out of the compatibility woods with the Super-9 yet. Some frames that use integrated aero brakes may still have some clearance problems. Once again, Zipp has designed a perfect disc wheel, except they forgot that it has to be able to go on a bike.
The Super-9 disc is a specialist wheel. Nothing is easy about it. This wheel is mega stiff – so you need to be a powerhouse rider.
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1080 - FRONT
This all new ground-breaking torodial rim shape is designed to provide maximum aerodynamic advantage and has proven to be 29 seconds faster than a trispoke over 40 k. In wind tunnel testing it improves upon the record set by Zipp's 808 (82mm deep) rim and is still 80 g lighter than the lightest trispoke.
Zipps detailed wind tunnel research has allowed them to explore the relationship between rim shape and depth in multiple innovative ways. This 1080 wheel set is designed to extract the maximum from the passing air while eliminating the pulsing drag effects of the trispoke. It is effective at 2-3 degrees more wind yaw than even their popular 808 and produces a saving of 2-3 watts over the standard 404.
This is the must have wheel for the dedicated TT specialist. Released in tubular and clincher versions with internal nipples and Zipp's new Carbon BridgeTM technology, this wheel is destined to quickly find its niche among the podium champs
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