PROPRIETARY TECHNOLOGIES

Inside the True USA-Made Rim

Our parent company, Zipp, pioneered structural carbon rim technology. What's more, Zipp also pioneered the M2CM co-molded rim construction that allows the safety and security of a machined aluminum braking surface to be joined with the aerodynamics and strength of a structural carbon rim (and no special brake pads needed like they are on most carbon wheels). In short, we're using the strongest, most dependable carbon rim technology in the world. As proof of this claim consider that our parent company's stock Zipp 303 clincher holds the all time record for impact drum testing at the DT test laboratory in Switzerland. This is the very same technology used in Flash-Point rims. In fact, we've even machined in wear mark indicators, a first in carbon aero rims, so you can instantly judge the wear life of the rims you are riding.

But we've achieved value by streamlining our carbon lay-up process. The typical Zipp rim requires 60 pieces of CNC cut carbon fabric plus all the hand-labor required for proper lay-up of those 60 pieces. While this minimizes the amount of excess material and overlap in the rim and pairs weight down to the bare minimum, it's incredibly labor intensive and therefore expensive to produce these rims. With Flash-Point we can create the same rim strength and durability with just 4 cut pieces of carbon. So what's the trade off? Well, about 497 grams of weight in the FP40 finished rim and about 588 grams in the FP60 finished rim.