Originally Posted by
brooklyn6640
1: I didn't know that Zipp sponsors the AUS team.
2: This...
Zipp logos missing in Pruszkow
“We weren’t ready,” confessed a Zipp representative who knows the inner machinations of the brand very well. Quite simply, he explained, “we don’t have a front disc wheel yet”. In modern pursuit the disc wheel set-up – front and rear – is ubiquitous. It is efficient, fast, reliable and employed by virtually every pursuit entrant.
“We don’t want to just hand over prototype products,” said the Zipp spokesman. “We want to prove that our product is better.
“We’re going to wait until everything is ready,” he concluded, not able to suggest an exact date for this but he estimated that it would be “around September or October… maybe even November or December.”
...means that Zipp is developing
new track wheels. These wheel will likely come with wind tunnel receipts
(unlike Mavic track wheels).