soulbike

No other taiwanese branded hubset uses wide bracing angles because most are copies of shimano flange spacings or from the bigger brands that they are sub-contracting for. In fact you will start seeing wider flange spacings coming out from taiwanese hub manufacturers as a copy of our designs, but majority of people do not understand the requirements of wide flange based wheels. Proprietory wheels are what we sell and other brands like campagnolo, zipp and the new shimano wheels also have wide flange spacings, there are many reasons for not doing wide flange spaced designs and I do not wish to go into it here. All wheel brands have different emphasis and wheel design and building is a compromise of many factors. What we have learnt about wheel design are based on many years of experimenting and building thousands of wheels with components that we have invested our own money into developing just for the sake of trying to create a wheelset that offers particular sets of attributes. We do not use any special alloys for our rims or spokes for the sake of having wide flanges. Do not group together all the wheel brands you see on online forums as the 'rest of the industry' as that is false. Alot of wheel brands use generic parts purchased as open molds which I have highlighted previously are copies of shimano hub shapes which is why to the casual observer it appears as if we are the only ones doing so. Building with wide flange spacings especially on the rear requires more attention while building though, the margin of error is alot lower but the benefits we feel outweigh the hassles.