Changing the EWS-winning Turbine R Wheelset is the similarly-named Race Face Turbine Wheelset, with delicate front- and rear-specific rims which can be each more potent and extra vertically compliant than the predecessor. Keeping up a 30mm inner width and uneven rim mattress, the Turbine rims get wider externally to enhance affect resistance and cut back pinch-flat possibility.

We’re instructed the Race Face Turbine Wheelset is the emblem’s maximum sturdy and compliant alloy wheelset so far… and, in a biking {industry} trend-bucking transfer, it’s in reality $100 USD inexpensive than the wheelset it replaces. Much more interesting is the lifetime guaranty coverage, which incorporates unfastened substitute of any rim this is broken throughout driving.

Race Face Turbine MTB Wheels

Whilst the outgoing Race Face Turbine R Wheelset ran the exact same alloy rim on its entrance and rear wheels, the brand new Turbine Alloy Wheelset launched these days will get front- and rear-specific 6069 aluminum rims in popularity of the other a lot skilled by means of each and every. Arguably, they each enjoy the exact same load however, in my opinion, I give much more attention to the place my entrance wheel goes than I do my rear. I think assured It’s not that i am by myself on this.

Many a mountain motorcycle wheel producer has catered to this factor prior to now – Crankbrothers being one such emblem that springs to thoughts. With the better amount of abuse it’s subjected to, it is smart {that a} rear wheel would have the benefit of having a rim design that prioritized affect resistance. Race Face percentage this take at the topic, additionally acknowledging that further compliance within the entrance wheel, the place the rider feels bumps extra acutely, is extra really helpful for total experience convenience.

The Race Face Turbine Wheelset considers all of this, providing a more potent, extra impact-resistant rim within the rear, and a lighter, extra compliant rim at the entrance. Whilst the inner rim width is constant at 30mm, the rim depths vary.

As in comparison to the Turbine R, the edges of the most recent Turbine Wheelset are wider externally at 35.3mm. It’s the form of the rim’s edge this is necessary right here, as this area is the wrongdoer throughout pinch-flat occasions the place the tire bottoms out between the rim and a rock or root.

Race Face are calling it the “Anvil Edge” which is their fancy means of claiming that the rim wall’s edge is now wider and flatter. Hypothetically, that are meant to cut back the chance of your tire splitting when it bottoms out, because the power of the affect is dissipated over a bigger floor space. Apparently, Trade 9’s new EN300 Wheelset additionally launched these days takes this idea even additional with an exterior rim width of 37.4mm.

In attention of convenience, Race Face made the rim of the entrance wheel shallower at 18mm, as in comparison to the 20mm intensity of the rear rim. Theoretically, the shallower rim will be the extra vertically compliant of the 2, serving to to cut back transmission of wheel forces to the rider’s arms and hands. Race Face say their riders have attested that switching to a extra compliant wheel makes it really feel like they’re working longer shuttle suspension on their motorcycle.

I used the phrase “hypothetically” previous, which used to be in all probability the incorrect phrase to make use of. Race Face say they put this new wheelset via the next battery of checks, all of which happened on the Fox Manufacturing unit Labs in Scotts Valley, with a view to turn out to themselves the prevalence of the brand new rims:

• Massive Have an effect on
• Sharp Edge Have an effect on
• Bump Rolling Wheel Fatigue
• Chain Pushed Rolling Wheel Fatigue
• Pressure Mechanism Prime Torque Fatigue
• Braking Fatigue
• Tire Over Drive Are compatible
• Brake Rotor Safety
• ISO Motorcycle Trying out Necessities
• Over the top Experience Trying out in numerous climates/areas
• Environmental Trying out

The edges’ new options have resulted in a wheelset this is round 30g heavier than the predecessor. Claimed weight for a 29″ wheelset is 1,895g – 850g for the entrance wheel and 1,045g for the rear. Those wheels are constructed across the Race Face Vault hubset with its hallmark over-sized hub shell, with 28 straight-pull double-butted Sapim spokes for each the entrance and rear. Spoke lengths are equivalent between the entrance and rear wheels, and Race Face supply 5 spares with the sale of each and every wheelset.

There may be not anything new to talk about relating to the hubs; the Vault nonetheless makes use of an inverted spring-pawl-ratchet device. There are 6 pawls throughout the mechanism, handiest 3 of which have interaction at anyone time due to their offset positioning. The ratchet has a 60 tooth so, with the timing of the ones pawls, the hub gives up 120 Issues of Engagement. That’s a three° engagement perspective which is beautiful rapid, however no longer industry-leading.

The Race Face Turbine Alloy Wheelset comes with a Lifetime Guaranty

Positive to be of enormous enchantment to riders is the lifetime guaranty at the Race Face Turbine Alloy Wheelset. It isn’t merely protecting production defects (although the ones are coated) – it additionally covers any harm performed to the wheels throughout driving. Listed here are the specifics of what Race Face will and won’t quilt:

• When you crash and smash a wheel, the guaranty applies 
• When you dent or flat spot your Turbine rim and your tire now not holds air, the guaranty applies 
• When you dent or flat spot your Turbine rim and your tire nonetheless holds air, the guaranty does no longer follow. Stay driving! 
• Seam separation and/or cracks on the spoke hollow, the guaranty applies 
• Hub put on reminiscent of bearings or freewheels are coated by means of our 2-year Restricted Guaranty (Vault hubs have elegance main bearing sealing for years of onerous use) 
• All non-bearing hub problems (together with crash harm), the guaranty applies 
• Crashes are handiest coated whilst driving your motorcycle. In case your good friend reverses over your again wheel with their truck, the guaranty does no longer follow. 
• Flawed set up or maintenance aren’t coated 

Pricing & Availability

Thew Race Face Turbine Wheelset retails at $799 USD / $999 CAD / 918,00 €, to be had in each 29″ and 27.5″ with Spice up and SuperBoost spacing choices to choose between with XD, HG or MicroSpline freehub. The Race Face Vault hubs they’re constructed round are 6-Bolt handiest.

Given the Lifetime Guaranty this wheelset is offered with, it sort of feels to provide a very good price proposition, on a par with the brand new Reserve 30 Alloy Wheels launched again in February. It’s nonetheless value declaring right here that the latter are nonetheless the extra reasonably priced at $699 USD; they’re marginally heavier and they’ve slower-to-engage DT Swiss hubs than the Race Face providing, however they do include a collection of Reserve Fillmore Valves.