Hiding in plain sight at the FSA booth at this year's Cycle Show were these brand new Trimax 30 KB wheels from Vision.
The wheels first caught our attention because the rims feature a super hard-wearing plasma electrolytic oxidation coating, which is better known by its tradename, Keronite.
As well as looking very stealthy and cool, the Keronite coating is said to improve wet weather braking and massively reduce rim wear.
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FSA claims that some of the pre-production versions of the wheels have lasted over 10,000km with no signs of wear to the rims. While this sounds impressive, we can only imagine that the rims didn’t have to stand up to everyday, wet conditions.
Mavic uses the same Keronite coating on its Exalith rims, but unlike these, Vision doesn’t use the patented ‘fish-scale’ style milling. This milling is often blamed for the noisy braking that Exalith suffers from, but is said to improve modulation and wet weather braking, so we’ll be curious to see how these rims perform.
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