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Mongoose Pro
Class 4 Sprint Rims
These are a product I can thoroughly recommend ,although unlike
other parts in this section, I doubt you will find any of these
on the market today!
These are my rims and they date back to 1989 - can you believe it?
They are Mongoose Pro Class 4 Sprint Rims and they are a very high-end
product. They were a very limited edition release at the time, because
they are the only rims that I’ve ever seen that were sold in
pairs and were front and rear specific.
They are made of a very rare magnesium alloy, unlike most mass produced
aluminium rims
nowadays, and in between every second spoke they
have a hole punched out to save weight (10mm on front and 6mm on
rear) as they are actually built for racing. Unlike other race wheels,
however, they have 48 spokes due to the lightness of each rim, thus
giving a strength to weight ratio better than any other wheelset
on the market.
This has been proved as I have been riding them for so long and
I'm not the smoothest guy out there most people didn't want to fork
out £200 just for two rims but Eric Rupes' design works so
well they have outlasted what other cheap wheels couldn't.
Good luck finding a pair, as I believe only 200 pairs were made
with only a handful coming to the UK due to the high price.
Gogo
If you have any pieces of kit that you swear by,
email us with a review (airtight@bbc.co.uk)
and we'll put it live.
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