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Rapide C 38
World Tour Performance for Everyone
Rapide C 38
World Tour Performance for Everyone
Aero, Stable, Light, Efficient? Yes Please!
The C38 brings carbon fiber high performance to the real world. It’s a versatile all-rounder equally at home crushing gravel washboards and summiting alpine passes. Optimized for use with modern wide tires, providing the right amount of sidewall support to facilitate surefooted handling in all conditions, the C38 wheelset is a great handling, lively climbing, robust all-road performer that also aerodynamically outperforms many deeper, aero-specific rims that cost twice as much.
Carbon wheels are a true performance upgrade to any bike, but too often the price tag puts them out of reach. The Rapide C38 shatters that barrier and brings a class leading Roval carbon rim and DT Swiss reliability together to provide riders with the best performance carbon wheel per dollar.
Millimeters that matter
Wider tires roll faster, and are more comfortable, than narrow tires. The tubeless ready, 21-mm internal width of the C 38 is optimized for use with modern, wider tires, providing them with the right amount of sidewall support to facilitate surefooted handling in all conditions. At a depth of 38mm, the C 38 rim is a great handling, lively climbing, robust all-round performer that also aerodynamically outperforms many deeper, aero-specific rims.
PREMIUM QUALITY HUBS AND SPOKES
With two main goals in mind—long life and easy serviceability—we looked to Switzerland. The C 38 uses an ultra-reliable, rapid engagement DT 370 star-ratchet freehub for smooth power transmission and long-term dependability. Similarly, DT Swiss Competition spokes were chosen to lace hub to rim, and finished with brass Pro-Lock nipples.
Hand built quality throughout
The premium components that make up this wheel are assembled together into the final product by hand. They are laced, tensioned, checked, and tensioned again by practiced, professional craftsmen: an added layer of quality control that machines cannot match.
Product Specifications
Technical specifications
Carbon clincher, 2Bliss Ready
Carbon
Disc brake only
38mm
21mm internal, 26.6mm external
Two-cross/Radial
Two-cross/Two-cross
Front/Rear: 24/24
DT Swiss Competition Race J-bend
DT Swiss Pro Lock Brass hexagonal
Front: 262mm drive, 273mm nondrive
Rear: 271mm drive, 273mm nondrive
DT Swiss 370 Disc for Roval, 100x12mm, Center Lock™
DT Swiss 370 Disc, 18T Ratchet LN, 142x12mm, Center Lock™, 11-speed
Sealed Steel Cartridge Bearings
Handbuilt
Roval tubeless tape and tubeless valves
1600g w/ Tubeless Rim Tape
125kg / 275lbs
Tire pressure recommendations
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How we made it
Handbuilt
There's no substitute for the hands-on experience and meticulous attention to detail that a human being brings to the craft of wheel building. While many wheels on the market are built by machines, Roval wheels are always built by people: from lacing the hubs, to equalizing spoke tension, to truing the wheel to lateral and radial perfection.
Composite shop
Before a wheel goes into production, we do all of the engineering, prototyping, and iterating in our Northern California innovation center. This includes machining the massive molds as well as laying up and producing the prototype rims. This kind of integrated, hands-on approach accelerates development and enables optimization that’s simply not possible any other way.