Fulcrum Red Zone Carbon Plus 29" wheels

The world of “Plus”: the latest frontier of Fulcrum technology for MTB wheels.
Fulcrum's flagship product for XC and Marathon competitions evolves thanks to feedback from high-level athletes: Red Zone Carbon+ is the result of specific analyzes and tests aimed at taking Red Zone Carbon's performance to the next level.
A process that personally involved the athletes of Team Buff-Megamo, who together with other athletes tested different configurations on the competition fields for a year to find the perfect balance and the maximum possible performance.
The result arrived just before the Cape Epic 2023: a wheel weighing 1,385 g, obtained thanks to the use of a mix of resins and unidirectional FF100 high modulus fibers made to Fulcrum specifications, which maintains and improves all the structural characteristics and implements all the best Fulcrum technologies. With Red Zone Carbon+, handling and reactivity significantly improve, respectively +9.5% and +10% compared to Red Zone Carbon.

The iconic and distinctive shape of the Red Zone Carbon NIP(PLE) FORCE rim remains unchanged and the MoMag and DSRC technologies are inherited. The bearings are always of the cone-cup type, but are improved with the USB™ (Ceramic Ultra Smooth Bearings) system with ceramic balls, which further raise the level of smoothness of the wheels and reduce weight and maintenance. Comparative tests have shown that USB™ bearings are 50% smoother than sealed bearings.