The H Plus Son The Hydra wheelset is very pretty wheelset using a 25mm wide rim that is 23mm deep.
The width of the rim make it suitable for road use and off road CX or gravel road riding. The rim is stiff and feature H Plus Son invisible weld join. There is no strict weight limit. This is why 28H is not offered. Its a wheelset for adventures.
Thr rim come in black.
The black rims are laced with black triple butted (2.2mm diameter elbow) Sapim Force spokes 32 spoke front and rear 3x.
Hubs used:
The BORG Wheels hub are available in 32H drilling. The have centrelock rotor mounts and come with Q/R and kits for 100x12mm/100x15mm front thru axles and 142x12mm rear thru axle. Q/R rear can be swapped in at the shop .
The freehub has 4 independently spring loaded pawls and a 36T ratchet ring. It is advisable to re-grease the freehub mechanism with good grease like Rock n Roll Super Web to keep the hub quiet and to stop water ingress weakening the spring.
They are a large flange design because large flange hub reduces the braking loads on the spokes compared to small flange designs. The front hub has 2x NTN 6902 LLB bearings and the rear hub has 2x NTN 6902 LLB. The freehub body has 1x NTN 6902 LLB and 1x NTN 6802 LLB for shimano and 1x 2x 6803 bearing for Campagnolo, XDR and N3W freehubs . All spares are available.
Shimano 8/9/10/11speed, XDR 12 speed driver, Campagnolo 9/10/11/12 speed freehub or Campagnolo N3W 13 speed freehub freehub options.
Dynamo hubs fron son are also available. The son 28 centrelock disc hub is used. If 6 bolt hubs are required just ask.
Supplied tubeless ready with tubeless rim tape, tubeless valves and tubeless tyre levers. I will warn though, tubeless tyres dont always stay seated on the rims without airbut set up quite easily. I consider this rim semi tubeless compatible. Great with tubed tyres though (easy fit).
5 year/10,000 guarantee against spoke failure, rim failure anything that could be put down to a wheel build problem.
Tyres can be fitted if you buy them.
Continental GP5000TL 25mm, 28mm or 32mm
IRC Roadlite tubeless 23mm and 25mm
IRC Formula Pro RBCC TL tubeless 25mm, 28mm or 30mm
IRC Formula Pro X-guard TL tubeless 25mm, 28mm or 30mm
IRC Formula Pro S- Light TLR tubeless ready tyre 25mm or 28mm
IRC Marbella tubeless X Guard 28mm gravel tyre
IRC Serac CX Sand and CX Sand X Guard tyres 32mm width
IRC Serac CX and CX X Guard tyres 32mm width
IRC Serac CX Mud and CX Mud X Guard tyres 32mm width
IRC Aspite RBCC clincher 24mm or 26mm (for use with inner tubes)
IRC Roadlite X guard 25 mm tyres (for use with tubes).
IRC Jetty 23mm, 25mm or 28mm (for use with inner tubes)
COVID 19 update. Overseas shipping is now with a courier only. UPS or Parcel force.
U.K policy
Orders placed in the afternoon normally get sent the next workday where possible. Orders placed before noon are often sent the same day but this is not guaranteed.
Same day disptach is not guaranteed due to volume of mail order. In general we are not operating with big delays in dispatch if any.
- Standard shipping is with DHL. Cost is £6.00 . Fully tracked with hour delivery slots.
- Some U.K addresses excluded from he DPD service Royal Mail is used (1st class tracked). Checkout is not sophisicated enough to know all the excluded postcodes. The areas are Channel Islands, Isle of Wight, Isle of Man Scottlish Highlands and islands (Scottish Highlands - AB31-38, AB40-56, FK17-21, IV1-40, IV52-54, IV63, KW1-14, PA21-38, PH4-41, PH49-50
Scottish Islands - HS IV41-51, IV55-56, KA27-28, KW15-17, PA20, PA41-49, PA60-78, PH42-44, ZE1-3)
- Northen Island - Ropyal mail 1 st class signed for is used.
- Rims are sent by courier only- cost £10. UPS is used. A phone number and email address must be supplied to allow me to book in. This service can also be picked for smaller items that you want delivered by UPS.
- Wheels shipping cost is £20 (cost of courier + cost of the box) next day. To NI, Scottish Islands, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and that is a two day service.
Overseas
Courier services are used only or over seas mail. UPS or parcel force depending on destination.
The website will provide shipping rates at checkout.
The import charges you will face are and these will be levied by the shipping carrier or by your customs authority in advance of delivery. Customs clearance will add to shipping times.
You will be billed for
Import duties which are set by the tarrif code we declare. Tarrif rates are normally published on government websites. "Free trade agreements" affect this and for EU customers there are no duties as tarrifs are set at zero for goods like our wheels that originate in the U.K. Goods that originate in the E.U and are exported back yo the E.U attract tarriffs. Good made outside the e.u and sold into the E.U attract tarrifs. The declared value in GDP will be converted to your countries currency by the monthly rate published by your tax authority.
Customs clearance fees -these vary from country to country and also vary by declared value in some juristictions.
VAT or sales taxes and applied to the total of the declared value of goods, customs clearance charges and import duties.
This shop declares the total paid for the goods for customs value, no exceptions. We will not declare low values as thats fraud and we will not be party to it.
A word of warning once an parcel has been shipped any import charges are your reponsibility. Refusal to pay these charges to the parcel carrier mean you loose the right to an automatic refund. We refund at our discretion minus any charges we are levied by the parcel carrier. These charges cannot be disputed by us. We also reserve the right to apply a 10% restocking fee on top of any charges applied to us for the return of the parcel. Therefore once shipped charges must be paid. We can accept no liability if the parcel is lost after charges have been refused to be paid.