Zipp 303 NSW Rear Wheel Carbon Clincher Tubeless XDR black

Zipp’s 303 Firecrest Tubular rim-brake wheelset offers key innovations for performance-minded cyclists. This is the game-changing wheelset designed to conquer Roubaix and Flanders. Retaining their versatile 45mm rim depth, 303 Firecrest Tubular rims feature construction designs for impact protection. When it comes to pure speed, the 303 Firecrest Tubular packs a serious punch. It’s lightweight with ABLC™ Sawtooth™ Technology, a complex dimpling pattern first developed for our top-level NSW wheel lineup. This technology helps to achieve the optimization of low aerodynamic drag and crosswind stability, which we call AeroBalance™. Zipp’s ShowStopper™ textured braking surface delivers unrivaled rim braking performance in wet or dry conditions. At the center of the 303 Firecrest Tubular rim-brake is a new versatile and durable hubset, the German-engineered ZR1.

Zipp Cogniton Hubs
The new Cognition Straightpull hubs, made of high-strength Z310.9 aluminium are extremely lightweight and offer a new freewheel body technology. The Swiss stainless steel bearings are the most precise in the entire industry. Specially developed hub bodies also distribute the load of the spokes more evenly over a larger surface to prevent torsion in the bearing area. The result is lower resistance and greater durability. The 17 mm hub axles are extremely stiff. The hub itself is milled using modern EDM technology so that 50 percent harder materials can be machined 20 times more precisely. The Cogniton hub series with Straightpull spokes offer an even higher lateral stiffness.

ABLC Sawtooth
zipp´s Sawtooth dimple design consists of 12 nodes that are specifically clocked to start aerodynamic shearing at a rate of 50hz at a rider speed of 20mph. Sawtooth accomplishes this by inducing small sheet vortices that shed at a low magnitude, but at ahigher natural frequency, thus decreasing the laminar bubble effect on the aerodynamically shielded side of the rim´s profile to further reduce high yaw drag and improve crosswind stability.

Showstopper
Showstopper technology uses a molded silicone carbide (SiC) surface brake ring for maximum wet braking performance. The result is a braking performance that is equal to that of an aluminium rim, even in torrential rain. Showstopper technology offers greater wet braking power than any other carbon wheel.

ImPress
The imprint graphics not only provide valuable weight savings, but also enable a unique and durable application of the four letters most feared by the competition in cycling racing: Z-I-P-P.