There are a number of big wheel companies doing their own carbon road rim designs and even more small shops building up wheels from essentially open mold carbon rims. But there are few smaller companies that devote the resources and expertise to develop wheels on their own. Scope, based in The Netherlands, is one such company, designing their own rims and hubs from the ground-up for a high performing solution. They are sticking to a small range to keep it simple, but with rim and disc brake options and in several depths they look to be ticking all the right boxes…
Set up four years ago and now in production for more than a year and a half, Scope specializes in the design & development of their own high-end road wheels. They have essentially just three offerings – road wheels in three different rim profiles, all of which are full carbon clinchers and tubeless ready. Then each of the R3, R4 & R5 wheels come in either rim or disc brake variants to suit a broad range of road use.
Both their rims and hubs have been developed in-house by their design engineers, together with specialists at the national Technical Universities of The Netherlands, and tested in-house against major competitors. The result of those partnerships is that their R&D team have developed some good tech and wheels that deliver top-level aerodynamics, braking performance & stiffness, all at a competitively low weight.
