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It’s not easy to produce a pair of hubs that weighs 276 grams, especially if you’re trying to make them strong and durable. But our new 88 front and 188 rear hubs, named for their weight in grams, certainly show that it’s possible to make a hubset that’s incredibly light yet tough as nails. True perfection is impossible, but these hubs are pretty close.

Both feature a 17mm axle larger in diameter than most cross-country mountain bike hubs and Swiss bearings higher in precision than most ceramic upgrades. Our wire EDM-cut drive internals are the most precise ever used in a bicycle hub and the spoke flanges are the toughest, due to our unique SHIFT technology.

It’s not a stretch to say that more design, engineering, refinement and manufacturing expertise goes into Zipp hubs than goes into many high-end frames, which is why we insist on making every component of them at our facility in Speedway, Indiana. We could probably do a lot less and still be ahead of the game, but that’s just not how we do things. Maybe you’re the same way.