Weight weenies was originally a pejorative term for people who got too obsessed by the weight of their bike. They were considered to spend more time worrying about the weight of their bike rather than riding their bike. They would pay thousands of dollars to get a bike a few grams lighter, even if it sacrificed comfort.

The weight weenie for many cyclists was a person with more money than sense. Though now by using the weight weenies forum you’ll find that people who care about the weight of their bike have been retaking the term. Many though still spend way more money than they should in order to have a light bike.

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As our frequent customers know, ICAN has launched several series of wheelset with different price; you can choose the wheels according to your requirements. The first series is the Standard Wheelset assembled with the J-bend hubs and aero blade spokes. Although we call it as Standard Wheelset, the hubs and spokes are both made by Taiwan. Then it is our mainstay product line in 2018, that is, the Fast and light series (FL).

In 2019, we make some improvement of the FL series, we upgrade the barking track and the hubset, now wheelset will become stiffer. Moreover, we launch new wheels—AERO series. We now have a wheelset that has all the FL series qualities (strength, stiffness, and aero) but for around 100g less per wheelset. Besides, some customers would prefer installing the wheelset with better hubset with well-known brands, good quality and high performance, to meet the requirements of this, we then laced the DT hubs to our AERO rims with Sapim CX-Ray spokes.

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Once we’ve delved into the UCI we’ll move onto why having a UCI certification is good and a little bit more about where you can find their certification information. At the end, we’ll give you a handy little guide to which of our carbon fiber wheels have a UCI certificate.

The UCI certification then not only makes life easy for commissaires, but it also allows you as a consumer piece of mind. We went for full UCI certification as we wanted you to know that we aim to be the premier Chinese supplier of carbon fiber road bike wheels.

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Cyclocross and gravel riding are the latest trends in cycling and like many people you may be trying to discern the differences between gravel bikes and cyclocross bikes. They will both generally have wider tires than a road bike, they will both be likely to be running disc brakes, they can both have knobbly tires, and they will both be looking great.

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2019 is the year that road bike aero really took off. Yes, Cervelo claimed the first aero road bike in 2003 with the Soloist and yes many manufacturers have followed suit. But for 2019 every manufacturer has jumped on the aero bandwagon or gone full aero for their high-end bikes. We haven’t jumped on the aero bandwagon, and we have been working through our aero designs and very shortly the pinnacle of our aero designs will be released, the ICAN A9.

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