Brad Kushner <Brad> writes:

Team Raven is pleased to announce the release of Whoosh!Wheels 2.0
for carbon fiber basetubes.

After months of Research and Development, we’ve produced some awesome wheels
that are just as great on a carbon control bar as are our original Whoosh!Wheels
on a variety of aluminum control bars.

Our Carbon Whoosh!Wheels are available with interchangeable hubs for two
different carbon control bar models. One size wheel only, 6.25” diameter. (Our
wheel choices for aluminum bars are 6.25” and 8.00”.)

The 3.50” white nylon hubs are sturdy and much larger than our 2.375” hubs for
aluminum bars. You can see from the photos that the Wills Wing carbon bar fits
with little room to spare. In comparison, the Moyes carbon bar has ¼″ to spare
at the front of the 3.50” hub. The wheels for these 3.50” hubs have a much wider
bore when compared to our wheels for aluminum control bars. For this reason, the
components of our Carbon Whoosh!Wheels are interchangeable with each other, but
they are not interchangeable with Whoosh!Wheels for aluminum bars.

In developing Carbon Whoosh!Wheels, we researched every wheel product and skid
available for carbon bars on the world market. Our goal was to produce the
absolutely best-fitting, easiest to use, sturdiest, and safest wheel product
possible for this application. We also gave serious consideration to the
fragility of carbon control bars; we wanted to produce a product that would not
only work well in an easy landing, but would also likely ‘do no harm’ in a
harder landing. We found wheels made by other manufacturers that look nice and
roll well, but which have hubs so narrow that they present a clear risk to the
carbon basetube in a hard landing (think: blunt hatchet). We designed Carbon
Whoosh!Wheels with a generous 1.125” stance on the control bar to spread the
load of a hard drop landing. We can’t guarantee that you’ll get away undamaged
every time you land hard, but we’re confident that your carbon basetube will
survive, without damage, some impacts that would surely result in damage if the
hub were narrower.

All of our Whoosh!Wheel 2.0 products are now 100% Made In the USA. Find them in
our store at www.hanggliding.com.