Spank Oozy Trail 295 Bead-Bite MTB Rim Review

• Spank Oozy Trail 295 Bead-Bite MTB RimThe MTB rim of choice for Spank’s Downhill World Cup Race Team and Big Mountain Freeriders, this light and resilient Oozy Trail 295 MTB Rim is innovative, versatile, and race-ready. Packed with high-end tech and super strong, the Oozy Trail MTB rim is pro-proven and ready for a custom build.Super-Strong and Super-Light Alloy MTB RimThis Oozy Trail 295 MTB Rim is made from an advanced alloy. Spank’s innovative, bespoke manufacturing process ensures that each alloy MTB rim is incredibly light and strong to withstand the most aggressive and technical trails. Tubeless ready so you can run whichever setup you prefer, the Oozy Trail rim also features Spank’s BeadNip™ technology for improved strength, durability, and comfort. Features:Material: MGR Dynamal AlloyRim Dimension (Depth): 22mmRim Dimension (External Width): 29.5mmRim Dimension (Internal): 24.5mmSpoke Count: 32Tubeless readyPolish anodised finishWeight: 470g (27.5"); 490g (29")Technologies:OohBah™: The unique OohBah™ profile allows us to manufacture thinner walled, wider profiled, lighter rims without sacrificing strength or rigidity. Wider rims mean stiffer wheels and more tyre spread, leading to greater traction and improved comfort, and tyre performance. The "wave" shape of the OohBah™ inner tube adds strength and support to the vertical rim flange walls and prevents buckling. Normal straight or curved tube wells must be much thicker, and by default heavier, to offer the same support. The most important features of any rim are rigidity and weight. Rigidity or stiffness means more of your energy is transferred into drive force, (rather than flex) and acceleration/cornering/braking performance is improved. Reducing rolling weight in your wheels, more so than any other part on your bike, can dramatically reduce the energy needed to propel it forward. Take a look at a cross section of any given rim on the market. You’ll see that both the outer and inner walls are concave. Now check out a Spank rim. Spank’s unique patented OohBah™ profile is characterised by its inverted tube well. This increases rigidity immensely compared with conventional rim designs. The combination of a concave outer wall with a convex inner tube well, results in the addition of a new, never before seen "hoop strength" in the profile, which lends massive strength and stiffness to the rim as a whole, and places the centre of inertia in the optimum position nearer the centre of the profile.BeadNip™: Improved tyre fit. Another secret of Spank’s patented OohBah™ profile is Spank’s double BeadNip™ technology. The OohBah™ patent includes the addition of a second set of ‚Äúnips‚Äù on the inner tube well, which ensures that the tyre always remains in the bead-seat, even when riding at minimal air pressures. With Spank’s OohBah™ patented rims, you can ride the tyres you want, at the pressure you want, on any terrain‚Ķwith far less fear of flats! Traditional rim designs include only one set of bead hooks on the vertical walls or rim flanges. The vertical hooks are crucial for tyre retention. Without the bead hooks, the bead can slip inwards, leading to snake bites (pinch flats). In tubeless applications, BeadNip™ also acts to trap the bead, preserving the seal between tyre and rim, enhancing air pressure longevity and reducing annoying "burps".Dynamal Alloy: Safe, affordable and responsible alternative to carbon fibre. Utilising the endless lifecycle of aluminium, Spank’s proprietary alloy blends offer superior mechanical properties resulting in stronger rims and reduced weight through optimised design. Spank Industries has made a concerted effort to develop safe and affordable alternatives to the excessive use of carbon fibre in the bicycle manufacturing industry. Spank’s WC DH Race Teams and their most hard core Big Mountain Freeriders are running Spank’s Dynamal Alloy rims in the choice against carbon fibre. Unlike standard recycled alloy mixes, Dynamal is a dynamically aged highly magnesium-silicon enriched, pure alloy, which is blended with a special "secret" hardening metal. Compared to statically aged traditional alloy types, Dynamal shows a significant further increase in ultimate tensile strength and yield, without the normal reductions in fatigue life.MGR: Micro Grain Refinement – processes such as extrusion, forging and tube drawing can increase the strength of alloy materials by reducing the grain size. Spank uses state of the art proprietary metal forming methods, which further improve grain size consistency and orientation, and significantly reduce grain size beyond that of their competitors. No other bars or rims are subjected to the number of drawing steps or level of refinement as those offered by Spank. This leads to greater ultimate strength, toughness, and ductility…meaning confidence, comfort and safety.Buy¬†Spank Wheels & Tyres from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
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As with many cyclists, be it mountain bikers, BMX riders or road cyclists we want to take the time to make sure we get the best products. Where cycling is a passion for many we often invest a lot of our time and money into the hobby. And as we know, getting the right products can give us that small competitive advantage either over our actual competitors, our mates or even just beating our own goals. But because we do invest so much in our bikes and our equipment it’s really important to buy from recognised retailers, in our most recent search, we found many products available online for ridiculously (almost laughable) prices. They were just so low that alarm bells should instantly be ringing. That’s why we only recommend buying from the retailers that you really know and trust, names like Wiggle, Chain Reaction and Evans Cycles are just some of those that we use regularly. With these retailers you know you’re in safe hands and can expect great service, great returns policies and if anything was to go wrong great customer service under a warranty claim.

But onto the reason you’re here today, let’s delve into some of the details of Spank Oozy Trail 295 Bead-Bite MTB Rim to help you understand a bit more about where it sits in the market against some of the many alternatives that are available out there. We’re very aware that by buying our cycling stuff online that we’ve missed out on the opportunity to actually see and test the product first. This is where reviews come in to their own, as it gives us that chance to hear from other like-minded cyclists about how good or bad a product is.

As you would expect, our first and top piece of advice before buying, is to read lots and lots of Spank Oozy Trail 295 Bead-Bite MTB Rim reviews. With a review score of 8.2 out of 10 it’s likely that there will be lots of great detailed reviews to help you. And if you find that actually the reviews are suggesting Spank Oozy Trail 295 Bead-Bite MTB Rim isn’t right for you then there will be tons and tons of other reviews for other products in the Rims category. In fact we’ve got 181 products reviewed in this category alone.

Something that makes it particularly challenging is the vast range of choice, as mentioned above there are 181 products in the Rims category. There are also 127 products from the brand Spank. And then getting into the specifics even more there are 17 products from Spank in the category “Rims”.