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8" Whoosh!Wheels for Wills Wing 3.00" CARBON BAR
$ 145.19
- Description
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Description
~~~~~~~~~~~Did you know? We now have over a
dozen
different products in our hang gliding wheel lineup!
All are available here in our online store.
One of these products is just right for your glider.
Check this list and determine which wheels will best suit your needs; then find them in our store inventory. Almost always available in stock for immediate shipping!
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6.25” wheels for round 1.125” (standard) basetube
6.25” wheels for round 1.250” (tandem) basetube
6.25” wheels for Moyes/Airborne/Icaro aluminum airfoil speedbar basetube
6.25” wheels for Wills Wing aluminum airfoil speedbar basetube
6.25” smooth wheels for Moyes and 2.75” carbon fiber airfoil speedbar basetube
6.25” smooth wheels for Wills Wing and 3.00” carbon fiber airfoil speedbar basetube
6.25” lightened wheels for Moyes and 2.75” carbon fiber airfoil speedbar basetube
6.25” lightened wheels for Wills Wing and 3.00” carbon fiber airfoil speedbar basetube
8” wheels for round 1.125” (standard) basetube
8” wheels for round 1.250 (tandem) basetube
8” wheels for Moyes/Airborne/Icaro aluminum airfoil speedbar basetube
8” wheels for Wills Wing aluminum airfoil speedbar basetube
8” wheels for Moyes and 2.75” carbon fiber airfoil speedbar basetube
8” wheels for Wills Wing and 3.00” carbon fiber airfoil speedbar basetube
All are available exclusively from Raven Hang Gliding LLC and our Ravensports online store!
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WHOOSH
TM
* Airfoil Speedbar Wheel Hubs with wheels
(Patent Pending)
New! Carbon Whoosh!Wheels for
Carbon fiber
airfoil basetubes !!!
Put eight-inch wheels on your Carbon Fiber Basetube!
Now available in both
Moyes/Airborne
and
W
ills
W
ing
versions!
This sale page is for a pair of
W
ills
W
ing
version of our 8" Carbon Whoosh! Wheels.
Hang Gliding manufacturers have brought some really great hardware to the hang gliding market over the years, and the current airfoil carbon-fiber speedbars on the Wills Wing Talon T2C, Sport 2 and the U2, and on the Moyes Lightspeed and Litesport, are something that we would have only dreamed about a decade ago. Who would have thought that a carbon-fiber basetube would trickle down to the recreational glider market so quickly?
Just one problem, that I see: There has been no
good
way to mount wheels directly on the carbon-fiber airfoil basetube until now. We've designed something really great to solve that problem.
Members of Team Raven collaborated on the WHOOSH TM * Airfoil Speedbar Wheel Hubs (Patent Pending) that you see here. The design criteria was simple, but the engineering was challenging: To fabricate a machined plastic hub that would be flexible enough to wrap around and close on the carbon-fiber basetube like a clam shell, that wouldn't easily slide sideways, and that would accommodate wheels that can bolt together with no tools. Oh, yeah, and it has to allow for the normal use of the VG line.
Our
Carbon Whoosh!Wheels
are available with interchangeable hubs for two different carbon control bar models. You can choose these 8" wheels, or our smaller 6.25" wheels to fit the same hubs (see our other offerings in our online store).
The 3.50” white nylon hubs are sturdy and much larger than our 2.375” hubs for aluminum bars. You can see from the photos that the Wills Wing carbon bar fits with little room to spare. In comparison, the Moyes carbon bar has ¼” to spare at the front of the 3.50” hub. The PVC plastic wheels for these 3.50” hubs have a much wider bore when compared to our wheels for aluminum control bars. For this reason,
the components of our Carbon Whoosh!Wheels are interchangeable with each other, but they are not interchangeable with Whoosh!Wheels for aluminum bars.
In developing
Carbon Whoosh!Wheels
, we researched every wheel product and skid available for carbon bars on the world market. Our goal was to produce the absolutely best-fitting, easiest to use, sturdiest, and safest wheel product possible for this application. We also gave serious consideration to the fragility of carbon control bars; we wanted to produce a product that would not only work well in an easy landing, but would also likely ‘do no harm’ in a harder landing. We found wheels made by other manufacturers that look nice and roll well, but which have hubs so narrow that they present a clear risk to the carbon basetube in a hard landing (think: blunt hatchet). We designed Carbon Whoosh!Wheels with a generous 1.125” stance on the control bar to spread the load of a hard drop landing. We can’t guarantee that you’ll get away undamaged every time you land hard…but we’re confident that your carbon basetube will survive, without damage, some impacts that would surely result in damage if the hub were narrower.
Since this part isn't injection-molded, each hub is machined out of a solid block of white nylon, and each wheel is machined out of a solid block of deep gray PVC plastic. We did everything that we could to simplify the machining of this part, so as to keep the production costs down. Still, like everything else in hang gliding that is built in batches of a few dozen at a time, and made in
America
, this wheel adapter will be fairly pricey. But, hey, this is hang gliding, need I say more?
* WHOOSH: Wheel Hubs, Out of the Ordinary, Streamlined Holes! (Patent Pending)
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FAQs:
Is this a complete set?
Yes. This set includes two WHOOSH! Wheel hubs and two 8" wheels.
What is the diameter of the wheels?
Almost exactly eight inches (8") in diameter.
Wills Wing or Moyes/Airborne Carbon-Fiber Basetube?
The carbon-fiber basetubes on the market come in two sizes, and you'll find that other manufacturers are using one or the other of these same two basetubes on their gliders. The
W
ills
W
ing
carbon-fiber basetube is about
three inches in length
, and the
Moyes/Airborne
carbon-fiber basetube is about
two and three-quarters inches in length
. If you look at the photos on this page, you can see the difference.
A complete 'regular' set of wheels plus hubs is ready-to-use on Wills Wing's carbon-fiber basetube, or ready-to-use on the Moyes/Airborne carbon-fiber basetube. (This sale page is for
W
ills
W
ing
version 8" Carbon Whoosh Wheels!) You may have to move your VG cleat a bit, you may not.
Carbon fiber
airfoil speedbar basetube?
Yup. Finally.
International shipping?
Yes, see details below.
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Installation tips:
Day-to-day installation is easy, and requires no tools. It takes only seconds to install each wheel. You can put the wheels on after the glider has been completely assembled. Just unbolt the two halves of each wheel, open up the hub, wrap the hub around the basetube, and re-bolt the wheel halves back together! The Whoosh!Wheel clamps in position and is not affixed to the basetube with any bolts or screws. We recommend using electrical tape, tie wraps (‘zip ties’) or fat rubberbands (not included) on the basetube to limit side-to-side travel of the Whoosh!Wheels.
The VG cleat on the right side of your basetube may be too close to the downtube to allow our Whoosh!Wheel to fit properly between the cleat and the downtube. In that case, you'll have to move the cleat inboard a bit, which is no problem.
Please note that Whoosh!Wheels are not designed to withstand hard vertical landings or hard landings with sideways motion. If you land going sideways, the entire Whoosh!Wheel assembly can and may slide on the basetube. In the event of a hard drop, you may damage your carbon basetube when the ground impacts the wheel from below. Try not to do that.
In the unlikely event that you should damage your Whoosh!Wheels, we'll be happy to provide pro-rated individual replacement parts to our customers. In other words, you don't have to buy a complete replacement set if you've only damaged a portion of your Whoosh!Wheel set.
Dealer Inquiries Invited.
For more information, please feel free to email, or call (262) 903-8800.
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.
And, don't forget to check out our
Whoosh!Wheels for Aluminum Airfoil Basetubes and Round Basetubes
(pat. pending)
and our shirts, hats, & fleece pullovers with hang gliding artwork ... find them all in our Ravensports
eBay Store
.
Yes, we offer combined shipping!