Tech specs: Parcours Strade GT
Price: £2,499 / US$3,299 / €3,199 (steel bearings) / £2,719 / US$3,589 / €3,489 (ceramic bearings)
Weight: 1,130 grams – 495g front / 635 grams rear.
Freehub drive: 60 tooth star ratchet
Depth: 49.2mm front / 54mm rear
Rim widths: 23.5mm hooked internal
Spokes: Alpina Carbolite Aero
British wheel brand Parcours has launched a new, high-end road wheelset today named the Strade GT, which boasts some interesting claims around vibrational loss-saving technology. The brand says this is a wheelset for riders wanting ‘aero efficiency, stability, and long distance comfort in a single system.’
Whilst these aren’t wheels designed to help anyone over the Hell of the North’s brutal stones, they do have some interesting claims around lowering vibrational losses and fatigue and helping riders stay fresher for longer.
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The headline claim here from Parcours is that the Strade GT wheels’ vibration-damping tech, which we get into below, is equivalent to reducing tyre pressure by approximately 10-15psi, which, at face value, is quite the claim.
The new tech is the focus here, but spec-wise, the wheels appear to tick a lot of boxes for the best road bike wheels. Like so many high-end wheels of late, they make use of carbon fibre spokes from Alpina, resulting in a claimed 1130-gram weight for the hooked 49/54mm deep rims, which the brand says are optimised around 30mm tyres, in part thanks to the 23.5mm internal rim. The wheels are also said to be more aerodynamic than the current Parcours Strade wheel, to the tune of 3.2 watts at 48km/h.
Strade GT wheels will cost £2,499 / US$3,299 / €3,199 for the steel bearing-equipped option and rise to £2,719 / US$3,589 / €3,489 if you want ceramic bearings.
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Parcours has used a new trademarked technology named Vibracore in the Strade GT wheels, which makes use of reclaimed Aligned Formable Fibre Technology (AFFT) from Welsh brand Lineat, in conjunction with Nottingham Trent University. Interestingly, the brand has to ship this material to its factory in the Far East for it to be incorporated into its wheels.
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