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EB15: DT Swiss gets a little wider, deeper and lighter for road and mountain bike wheels – Updated

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DT Swiss’ suspension carried over the changes introduced at Sea Otter earlier this year with the move to bring all of the production back in-house, so Eurobike was all about their rims and wheels.

Starting with XC/Trail, they announced their very light XMC carbon wheels before the show. Those came with a claimed weight as low as 1,410g. Now, there’s an even lighter version called XRC, with the “R” for “Race”. These just barely move the scale at 1,340 in their lightest configuration thanks to a shallower 20mm deep rim and going slightly narrower to 28mm external, 21.5mm internal.

Both wheelsets retail for €1,998 regardless of hub or rim selection, click through for weights on the new XRC wheel options and lots more…

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All hubs use the Centerlock brake mount except the RS-1 option, which gets standard 6-bolt.

XRC 27.5″

  • Front 15mm TA – 615g
  • Front RS-1 – 715g
  • Front 15mm Boost 110 – 620g
  • Rear 12×142 – 725g
  • Rear 12×148 Boost – 730g

XRC 29er

  • Front 15mm TA – 655g
  • Front RS-1 – 755g
  • Front 15mm Boost 110 – 660g
  • Rear 12×142 – 790g
  • Rear 12×148 Boost – 795g

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The XRC has the same matte finish as the XMC shown above. All of DT Swiss’ wheels come tubeless ready now, pre-taped and ready to roll with tubeless valves (even the road/cross wheels ship ready for tubeless!) These even come with all axle end caps and both standard freehub body and XD driver in the box.

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If you wanna roll your own, the new wider XM 481 and 551 rims come in at 35mm and 44mm respectively. Interior width for the 481 is 30mm and weights are 490g (27.5) and 525g (29er). The 551 measures 40mm inside and weighs in at 595g (27.5 only). They ship with the DT Squorx PHR system nipples that prevent binding by allowing the nipple to align itself straight with the spoke.

DT noted that every one of their mountain wheelsets is available in Boost sizes for 2016, something that their in-house engineers were very excited about. The move to the wider hub flanges was said to have increased 29er wheel stiffness by almost 15%. They also noted that while they showed several XC-oriented wheel updates, wider rims are currently in the works for Plus sized tires that we should expect in the near future.

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RR21 Disc is a new welded alloy rim road and cross wheelset with DT’s first DiCut disc-brake hubs, asym rims and bladed spokes.

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Retail for the set is €818.

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The new R32, shown bottom right, is similar with a welded rim that’s a little deeper but just 18mm wide inside. But, it comes in rim (1,735g)  and disc brake (1,720g) versions. Price is €478 rim / €498 disc.

The RRC65, shown top left, is a new deep aero carbon rim wheelset with ceramic bearings. €2,398 clincher/€2,198 tubular (1,405g).

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The R32 gets chromed Spline hubs…

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…but the RRC65 gets the SINC ceramic bearing upgrade. Again, like the mountain wheels, the road clinchers are all tubeless-ready out of the box, shipping with valves and rims strips, and all hubs can be swapped to XD drivers.

Their flagship Mon Chasseral wheels debuted at Sea Otter, so no changes there yet.

DTSwiss.com

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M Polka
M Polka
8 years ago

Why is there a boost 110/148 27.5″ option? Now the 29er realm will be crying about how they no longer have “equivalent” stiffness…

Any way, DT makes great wheels in my experience and these new XMC’s look awesome.

MsC
MsC
8 years ago

When looking at the rim profiles on DT’s website, apparently only the XMC’s have a hookless rim while the XRC’s are still the classic design. Perhaps relabeled XRC 1250 rims?

thesteve4761
thesteve4761
8 years ago

@Msc- XRC1200=same rim as XRC1250 (2015) with new hubs, new spokes, new finish. Still a great XC wheelset.

@M Polka- because there are bikes to fit the wheels….

Durianrider
Durianrider
8 years ago

best freehub bodies around for sure.

MissedThePoint
MissedThePoint
8 years ago

Tubeless reliability any better?

Lancelotlink
Lancelotlink
8 years ago

Those chrome splined hubs look amazing. Bummed the RS1 hub isn’t Centerlock but I’m guessing it has something to do with a larger axle.

Rider
Rider
8 years ago

It’s not Center Lock because it’s an RS-1 hub for an RS-1 fork which are from SRAM. SRAM wouldn’t dare use anything that is a Shimano standard.

thesteve4761
thesteve4761
8 years ago

@ Lance and Rider- RS-1 hub shells don’t allow enough space for a CL rotor (massive dropout interface), so 6 bolt must be used.

TypeVertigo
8 years ago

@Rider – And yet, SRAM was one of the first component companies to adopt Shimano’s Flat Mount format for road bike disc brakes.

SouthPaw
SouthPaw
8 years ago

@Rider- Sram/Avid also made centerloc rotors. While I think they would prefer not to use Shimano standards, they also like to make money.

thesteve4761
thesteve4761
8 years ago

@Rider- or the “11 speed road” freehub standard they adopted from Shimano?

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