ELUSION CARBON

Carbon road wheelset

• Features Vittoria’s SwitchIT® freewheel for tool-free maintenance and replacement
• Medium-depth 42mm rim depth
• Wider rim specification for superior traction and handling

Responsive and lightweight

The Elusion Carbon 42 is your win-win wheelset solution. Offering supreme aero performance and light weight construction, this wheel set delivers optimized stiffness and ensures a dynamic, responsive ride when you’re leading the charge on the flats or looking for reactive acceleration on the climbs. The tubeless ready, 17C rim provides superior traction and handling, greater comfort and improved rolling resistance. Built for sustained speed, the Elusion Carbon 42 boasts a 42mm rim depth. Combined with Vittoria's SwitchIT® hub design which ensures perfectly balanced spoke tension, the Elusion Carbon RR leads from the front.

Benefits of graphene 2.0 in carbon wheel applications

The addition of this nano-technology material results in a faster, stronger, more resilient carbon-composite material. Similarly to tires, when applied to wheels, graphene filled the holes in between the carbon molecules bonding with them. As a consequence, results displayed that carbon wheels increased lateral stiffness, improved resistance, became lighter and boosted heat dissipation. Moreover, one of the key findings was that graphene-enhanced carbon wheels for tubeless tires are now able to be used at higher air pressures and experience enhanced braking in all conditions.

Graphene 2.0-enhanced composites have up to 50% improved material properties. Tests carried out by Vittoria r&d engineers, confirmed by external laboratories, found that introducing graphene into the rim’s carbon-fiber matrix has a great positive impact:

• graphene 2.0 reduces temperature build-up
  
• graphene 2.0 increases material strength by up to 20%
• graphene 2.0 improves lateral stiffness
• graphene 2.0 enables further weight reductions for future products by up to 150 grams/per wheelset

Asymmetric design

By balancing spoke angles on both left and right sides of a wheel, an asymmetric rim offers a laterally stiffer wheel. This is crucial on disc brake wheels, where the brake disc mount displaces the hub flange to the hub center. The 2.5 mm offset from center on asymmetric rims minimizes differences in spoke tension and equalizes spoke-lacing angles, making for a stiffer, more stable wheel.

Vittoria switchit® technology

Road hub

All road wheels are built on a hub designed and developed by vittoria. Produced to meet the highest possible standards of quality, vittoria’s switchit® hub features industry-proven parts for supreme performance, time and time again. The spokes, whether round-section or bladed, are straight-pull and specially produced for vittoria. Straight-pull spokes have been specifically chosen over j-bend spokes as they offer superior strength and are thus less prone to failure. Rear wheel hubs feature an oversized drive-side flange, with spokes laced in a 2:1 ratio. This creates the perfect balance in spoke tension on each side of the wheel, which makes for an ultra-responsive ride.

Freewheel system

Most of Vittoria’s road wheel options feature the switchit® freewheel system. Cassettes mount on a freewheel body that can be removed quickly and replaced without the use of tools. This allows for simple gear ratio adjustments to suit the conditions. Vittoria’s switchit® technology works seamlessly with shimano, campagnolo or SRAM cassettes.

• Discipline road 
  
• astm f2043 category 1 
• rim material carbon 
• rim width clincher (int-ext) 17 - 24 mm 
• braking system caliper 
• front axle compatibility qr
• rear axle compatibility qr
• front wheel spokes 16
• rear wheel spokes 21
• spokes: material stainless steel
• spokes: profile technology butted straightpull
• nipples brass black
• front hub va2f
• rear hub vajr
• bearings sealed: 2 front, 4 rear
• weight limit (iso)* 125kg
• fwb version shimano, campagnolo

* iso weight limit includes rider and bike.