Six wheels plus shoes and clothing in refo﷽cused Ksyrium 🧔family
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The new Mavic Pro Carbon SL wheels co🌳me in clinc🎃her and tubular, in rim brake and in disc(Image credit: Courtesy Castelli)
The Pಌro Allroad Disc wheels come with 30mm Yksio🍷n Elite Allroad tubeless tyres(Image credit: Courtesy Castelli)
Ksyrium clothing💛 in non-traditional (for Mavic) colours(Image credit: Mavic)
The new Ksyrium Pro Bibs h🐓ave a chamois with Endurolit🍬e memory foam(Image credit: Mavic)
Laser machining on the brake track improves stopping performance, and ꦛan aluminium inser🅺t acts as a heat sink(Image credit: Courtesy Castelli)
Mavic 𓄧redesigned the hubs with a faster🎉 engagement and better seals(Image credit: Courtesy Castelli)
Yksion Elite Allroad tubeless tyres have a puncture prote🎶ction𒀰 layer that runs bead to bead(Image credit: Courtesy Castelli)
The Pro Allroad Disc wheels come i🦋n both Centerlock and six-bolt options(Image credit: Courtesy Castelli)
Machining keeps rim weight down to a low 420g(Image credit: Courtesy Castelli)
Mavic's new 🔴Pro Allroad Disc wheels are built for road💙 riding off the beaten path(Image credit: Courtesy Castelli)
Mavic's Ksyrium Pro shoe in burgundy(Image credit: Mavic)
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Some 16 years after Mavic first introduced the Kysrium as an innovative alloy wheelset, the French company has reinvigorated the name with a refreshed identity focused around endurance-style ridi😼ng. Beginning in July, Mavic will have eight wheelsets and even shoes, clothing and gloves under the Ksyrium banner.
The big news within all of this is the Ksyrium Pro Allroad Disc, a go-anywhere 1,620g tubeless road disc wheelset built for 30mm tyres with 19mm in𒁏ternal🔯-width rims, along with clincher and tubular versions of the Pro Carbon SL climbing wheel that also has modern, wide rims.
As the bike industry squabbles over wheel-axle standards, Mavic has hedged its bets with triple compatibility — all new wheels will come with adaptors to work with 12mm thru-axles, 15mm thru-axl🎀es and standard quick releases.
"12mm thru-axl🌸es are coming on many 2016 road disc bikes," said Mavic road product manager Maxime Brunand. "But we want our wheels to work for ever🍸yone."
As other wheels companies have jumped on the wider-is-better bandwagon, Mavic had been holding on to narrow-is-aero rim profiles. Its first and current version of the carbon clincher, the Cosmic Carbone 40 C, has a 13mm internal rim width. By comparison, Zipp, Reynolds, ENVE and others have gone 17, 19 and even 21mm i﷽n some cases.
Mavic's approach with 19mm rims for rough-road riding and 17𒐪mm rims for standard road riding has been a measured development, the company says.
The new hub has a nine-degree engagement, an improvement over the pr🌱evious 17 degrees on the current Ksyrium hubs. Also, and perhaps of more interes൩t to current Ksyrium owners, is an improved seal to protect bearings and internals from moisture and debris.
At 405g, the rim is even with or lig🐲hter than the competition, Brunand said, but can withstand more abuse, he claims.
As for the rim width, Mavic could go wider, Brunand said. "The 🌜outer width only matters for aero. What matters more is inside width," he said. "If we go over 17, the minimum tyre size is 28. And I'm not sure clim🔜bers are ready to use 28mm tyres yet."
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