It might be a 3D rendering. The radiating fingers inside the tire are black instead of the white fingers that appears in all the cracked wheel images in this thread.
By the way, what is the function of those fingers? Do they stiffen the tire at the centerline to reduce the rolling resistance? Or is it reinforcement to anchor the foam to the core?
I think Boa said they have a wheel version they are making with a tread pattern, for all sizes of their new wheels, could be worth checking out
Thereās smaller dia torque board wheels available with the same stuff the 110s use
Yaā¦ telling meā¦ This whole time you didnāt even know those āfingersā was the foam core???
And there is a clear/black option instead of grey/whiteā¦
Iāve only seen close up pictures of broken I-wonders. Are you surprised I have not purchased a set?
Anyway, sound like the clear portion is solid clear urethane and the fingers are pockets of a light resilient foam. Seems clever. Too bad they canāt mold a reliable inner hub/core/bearing sockets.
Curious, have you ever ridden a set of cloud wheels?
I have not. I was thinking about purchasing a set, but I was going to borrow a friendās set to try them out first. Then I found two different threads on broken cloud wheels. I found the thread intreaguing because initially there were so many people who said they were going to keep riding them despite the failures.
To me it looked like there was a clear urethane tire surounding a clear foam inner tube with some opaque finger structure to bind the foam to the core. Now I know differently.
Iād just like to point out if theyād ever just gone kegel, theyād never face such problems. M2c
Yeah but then theyād have uglyass wheels and thatās just not okayā¦
Iām stoked they decided to keep abec and switch material suppliers and core design to thicker spokes. Although they skipped over to mention the batch of under injected cores, looks like the next batch could be solid.
Thatās just youā¦
Whatās wrong with market variety? If you like kegal the tb110s are great wheels that rides just as smooth as cloudsā¦ I donāt get why everythingās gotta be the same shit
I would prefer Kegel, but a proper ABEC style would be totally fine.
nothing wrong with market variety, but Iāve personally had a myriad of problems with Abec cores, and I think that theyāre ugly. Iām with the less is more crowd / KISS principle.
meh. So are transparent blue wheels but Iām not whining in that thread lol.
weāre arguing over personal tastes. Like you like potatoes and I like quinoa sort of argument. We should stick to engineering.
I do like potatoes. How did you know?
Good point tho. On topic I think the new core is still PC/ABSā¦ Iām not aware of TPU that can be made crystal clearā¦ But maybe āthicker coresā just means āwe figured out how to inject plastic properly and account for shrinkageā
From the picture above, it looks like they switched to abec clone style cores rather than genuine ABEC cores with the thinner spokes.
Which is ironic because the cores were splitting vertically, not across the spokesā¦ Aside from that one wheel that came apart, none of the other ones had broken spokes, only cracked bearing seat
