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How Are Heart Rate And Power Used For Training?
If you want to use a heart rate monitor or power meter for training, but don’t know how, you’re not alone. Unfortunately, the simple act of owning either device will not make you faster. To make fitness gains, you’ll have to make sense of the numbers. This article will explain how using heart rate and…
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Rim Brake Vs. Disc Brake – What’s The Difference?
UPDATED: 08/16/2021 Early 2020, we released our third generation of FLO Wheels that included All Sport and Gravel wheels. With updated technology, these wheels were optimized for aerodynamics and rolling resistance, proving that wider is faster. If you have a road or tri bike, The All Sport Series features Disc Brake wheels to accommodate disc brake bikes. How do you know which carbon wheels will fit…
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Are The Small Details Slowing You Down?
You’ve wanted a new set of race wheels or a bike for a long time. For months you’ve dreamed of making the purchase, but that pesky electrical bill kept getting in the way. Then, after what felt like an eternity, the day finally comes. You’ve padded your bank account with just enough money, and you’re…
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FLO’s Side Of The Hambini Accusations
A guy who goes by the name “Hambini” posted results of an aerodynamic cycling wheel study. FLO wheels performed poorly in that study. After the study published, FLO and many others had questions about Hambini’s testing protocol—primarily because of the details omitted from his post. Hambini answered some questions but avoided others. A couple months…
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How Slower Wheels Can Make You Faster
Yes, you read that correctly, and no, I’m not taking crazy pills. Slower wheels can make you faster. To make sure you choose the right wheels the next time you put on a race number, keep reading. Your Front Wheel Is The Culprit In this article, we will focus on your front wheel. Your front…
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FLO Cycling – Our Next Adventure – Gravel Wheels
Why do businesses start? The list of reasons is endless. For us, the desire to start FLO revolved around solving a problem. That problem was that good quality cycling wheels were expensive. We wanted to produce a cycling wheel that was as good as the best in the industry but cut the cost by up…
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FLO Cycling – Defining Consumer Direct Sales
When FLO started in 2011, we made the decision to sell our products via a consumer direct sales channel. The industry standard at the time was to sell products through a retail bike shop, but for us, selling directly to the consumer made more sense. This became a key part of our business model. So…
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Effective Rim Diameter and Spoke Length
When building a cycling wheel, the Effective Rim Diameter (ERD) is an important measurement used to calculate the correct spoke lengths. A lot of rim manufacturers will list the ERD of their rims (we do too), but it is very important to know that the ERD we list, can be different from the ERD you…
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How Does a Tire Support Its Load?
Last week I wrote a blog article that discussed why you reduce the air pressure in a tire when you widen the wheel or increase the tire size. While writing the article, I started thinking about how a tire supports its load. My first guess was the air pressure, but that’s incorrect. It plays a…
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Carbon Clincher Brake Track Testing
If you’ve been researching carbon clinchers, you’ve likely come across a thread on a forum where someone has melted their wheels while braking. That’s a scary thought. Do all carbon clinchers melt? The quick answer is no. We’ve done a lot a testing to ensure our new Carbon Clinchers pass safety standards so you won’t…
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What is a Net Drag Reduction Value
LEGACY POST: This is a legacy blog post. Net Drag Reduction Value has been replaced by Total Power. Total Power uses Net Drag Reduction Value. This post also discusses old generations of wheels. We’ve always believed in trying to be as realistic as possible when estimating time savings for a given wheel. To do this we…
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CFD and Wind Tunnels. Are they for Design or Marketing?
The goal of a wheel designer is to create the fastest wheel possible while also reducing drag as much as possible. When the design of the FLO 30 was underway, I was asked a really great question recently that I thought deserved some attention. Does CFD and time in the wind tunnel really help you…
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Bike Tire Pressure and Temperature
Have you ever wondered what happens to your tire pressure when you ride through different temperatures? How much does it change? Should you pump your tires up inside or outside? These are all things I recently started thinking about. There are a few rules of thumb but I wanted to know why. If you’ve had…
