Fulcrum Red Zone 3 29" 2WF-R AFS Boost wheels
A reliable and resistant product for off-road fun and performance
The Red Zone 3 are an all-purpose wheel, which is extremely versatile and suited to multiple uses: training wheels, sturdy race wheel or the perfect base for adventure bikes (boost gravel). Aesthetically this wheels are completed with an advanced finish that marries a double polished-matt surface with laser-etched graphics. The Fulcrum logo can be found inside a red box, which can also be replaced with a reflective adhesive, black on black, included with the wheels.
Features
- Tyre type: 2-Way Fit™ Ready(tube & tubeless ready)
- Tyre size: 29"
- ASTM Category: 3
- Real weight: 776 g (front) / 909 g (rear)
- Rim material: aluminium
- Rim height: 19 mm, asymmetric
- Rim width: 29 mm
- Inner rim width: 25 mm
- Braking system: disc brake
- Braking surface/Options: AFS™
- Front axle compatibility: HH15-110 Boost
- Rear axle compatibility: HH12-148 Boost
- Front spokes: 24
- Rear spokers: 28
- Spokes material: stainless steel - double butted
- Spokes profile: rounded, straight pull
- Nipples: aluminum
- Hubs: aluminum, aluminum flanges
- Bearings: adjustable Cup & Cones bearing
- FWB options: XD, HG11, MS12, Optional N3W
Included
- Valve.
- Valve removal key.
- Ring nut.
- Reflective “F” stickers.
Technologies
Wide Rim Tech
Fulcrum®’s R&D department, following requests from the competition circuit, has worked to create rims that are wider than before, about 4 mm or more than previously. This technical choice provides an ideal basis for 25/28mm tyres, the sizes currently popular. This ensures stability, excellent handling and superior comfort.
Cup & Cone
The cup-and-cone bearing differs from the classic cartridge bearing because it works in perfect alignment with the forces involved, weight and thrust from the frame, as the bearings run in a race positioned directly opposing these forces.
Square Milling
For the new Racing Zero’s aluminium rim, Fulcrum decided to keep the triple-milled structure throughout the profile to minimise aluminium thicknesses. Next, technicians added 3D milling at the base of the spokes.
This means less material but the same reliability since, in this particular design, the forces are well distributed over the rim.
Triple and “Square” milling enable maximum weight reduction on the rim periphery, producing an extremely responsive wheel.
Asymmetric rim
The asymmetry is designed to improve rim tension, balancing the forces from brakes and sprocket cassette.
2Way - Fit™ Ready (MTB): 2WF ready transformation procedure
This procedure transforms Red Zone wheels (designed to be used with an inner tube) into Tubeless Ready wheels (i.e. without the use of an inner tube but with the compulsory use of a sealant liquid).
To ensure the correct transformation of the wheels, it is obligatory to respect the procedure explained below, using the following components: one fulcrum valve M1-035, one fulcrum Seeger ring 30 mm and sealant liquid.
Microspline freehub
Fulcrum understand technical evolution as painstaking attention to product development, and it’s one of the cornerstones of all projects that come out of R&D Department.
The Fulcrum spirit entails a constant effort to pick up and seize on new trends and keep pace with the most advanced technologies available.
This is why they adopted Shimano's Microspline standard as soon as the new racing drivetrains for 12-speed mountain bikes were presented, and will introduce the ground-breaking technology throughout range.