Mavic is bringing back a classic with a limited edition of their iconic yellow DeeMax DH mountain bike wheels, now updated for a modern generation of gravity riders. Somehow it’s been a quarter of a century since the DeeMax’s debut racing DH and pioneering freeride, so they’re celebrating in flashy yellow in limited numbers.
Mavic DeeMax DH 25th Anniversary Limited Edition Yellow
Calling them an “Unbreakable Legend”, we remember some of downhills biggest names racing those unmistakable yellow wheels. And then soon after of seeing them hucked of the biggest cliffs in the early days of freeride. They are an undeniably iconic wheelset as mountain biking rapidly progressed to riding and racing much more technical terrain. And many of gravity mountain biking’s biggest names rode DeeMaxes.
We’re not entirely sure how Mavic does their 25th Anniversary DeeMax math, as the wheels technically debut on the DH World Cup in 1995 as a prototype tubeless alloy rim wrapped in an aero carbon shroud developed together with Michelin. Mavic says two seasons later though, Nicolas Vouilloz was winning World Cups and a World Championship already on the first yellow DeeMax wheels that then seared themselves into our brains. Still that’s 26 years ago. Maybe a little lull in the Mavic business in recent years justified holding out on giving us new yellow DeeMaxes. But now, we have them. And we’re kinda psyched.
So what’s actually new?
In development for years, the big changes are in the all-new DeeMax DH rim…