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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…
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Bike Tire Pressure and Elevation
I was recently at 11,000 ft elevation. While I was sucking wind running up a set of stairs, I started thinking about what happens to tire pressure when elevation increases or decreases. If you’ve read the title and these first few sentences, I bet you can guess what this article is about. …
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What I’ve Learned from My Time in a Wind Tunnel – Part 2
This article is a follow up to Part 1 What I’ve Learned from My Time in a Wind Tunnel – Part 1. I suggest reading the previous article before you read this one, especially if you want a bit of background on wind tunnels. Here we go with the rest of the lessons I’ve learned.…
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What I’ve Learned from My Time in a Wind Tunnel – Part 1
The first time we visited the A2 Wind Tunnel we were under the assumption that testing a wheel was a simple as placing it in the wind tunnel and reading the results. What we didn’t know was that there were a large number of things that can alter the results. We also didn’t really know…
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FLO 30, 60, 90, DISC Wind Tunnel Results
LEGACY BLOG POST: Please note this data is from our original generation of wheels. Many things have been changed and updated. We spent an awesome day testing at the A2 Wind Tunnel last week. We spent more time testing than ever before and we are excited to share the results with you. Here’s a breakdown…
