SOC15: First look at new ultra wide 29er rims from Derby

My computer says it’s April 30th. Or is it April 1st? Just asking because “patent pending water drain hole”. I mean com’on this is so dumb it cannot even be meant as a joke, right?

In the USA I could patent the sound of my farts.

American Classic has had drain holes now for a number of years.

You guys are nuts! Who cares about the patent on the stupid drain hole, BFD. All that matters is that Derby is finally angle drilling their rims.

Nice world champ colors on the rim

Why’s it so heavy? Kappius’s XCW rim is still under 450g (40mm ID) and even has offset spoke bed and doesn’t look like it’ll be as much of a pain in the ass to tape up, though its MSRP is $700.

I was kinda interested in these rims then I saw the patent pending b.s. and I felt sick. No way I support them or One Up for that matter now that they have become patent trolls.

Derby Rims, the world’s first carbon fiber rims wider than 30mm, with innovative carbon fiber rim design features improving durability, many brands copy very closely now, are very wide. And like every other hollow or “double-wall” rim of any material having spoke holes, water easily enters past the spoke nipples filling the hollow rims very quickly, and is trapped inside for many weeks while the water slowly vaporizes and escapes back out past the nipples, unless more water is trapped when the wheels are again washed, or ridden though a stream, or in the rain. I estimate the very wide hollow rims like Derby Rims without water drain holes can carry at least 1 ounce, at least 30 to 40 grams of water in each rim, adding rolling weight. We pay very much extra for light weight highest performance wide carbon fiber rims, and the water drain holes keeps Derby Rims light in weight.

I have filed two provisional patents so far, including the new hollow rim water drain holes now produced in every new Derby Rim. The provisional patents are filed firstly for self defense. In 2014 and up to today, many well known brands have very closely if not exactly copied my innovative features of my original 2012 and 2013 rim designs, seen first publicly during evaluation testing in Spring 2013. And those brands closely cpying my design features are all very well funded, and could possibly patent my designs and then legally require me to stop using my own designs or pay to license the use of my own designs because I didn’t file for a patent first. I filed with the USPTO, to protect myself and Derby Rims service motivated business from the exploitative self interest motivation of many other businesses. Secondly, if granted, the patents could help gain partnerships.

If anyone has evidence of rims produced with water drain holes which can be linked on the web or found in any publicly available documentation, please refer such evidence of prior production to me. I have found no evidence that hollow or “double wall” rim drain holes have ever been documented or used in production before Derby Rims.

Enjoy!