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Wow nice one Thom!!!

A quick note: the price of the HUNT Proven Trail H_Core wheels retail at $1,499 USD, if you're shopping in the US.

A quick note: the price of the HUNT Proven Trail H_Core wheels retail at $1,499 USD, if you're shopping in the US.

@tcmtnbikr: Hi we did include it in our PR but it looks to have been removed during the PB editing process. Here's a link https://www.pinkbike.com/photo/27937945/

Hey, Ollie from HUNT here, Thanks for asking some more detailed questions about our rim development, and particularly our use of FEA simulation. Our rim impact FEA models are built around a single impact of a 15mm diameter anvil at 10 degrees onto the rim bead to simulate a worst-case scenario of a slight sideways landing onto a root. This is also one of our more challenging internal physical impact tests we carry out on all of our own wheels along with key competitors, having both of these datasets then allows us to correlate our FEA results with the real world testing. After thousands of simulations (and lots of smashed rims) over the years we like to think that our models are accurate enough to give us pretty good outputs. For the Enduro V3 project for example we took key rim profiles, our previous Enduro V2 model and key competitors and run these through the FEA model to understand stress values at key points and to understand stress distribution and rim failure mode. We also compared the failure modes witnessed in our impact testing to the sims and found them to be comparable, particularly in terms of permanent deflection of the bead area which was a major area that we wanted to improve with the Enduro V3. Using this as a starting point we then developed new profiles that looked promising in the FEA models and also combined with our 10+ years of in house bike wheel development experience. We actually then tooled up several of these profiles, made some wheels and then put them back into the FEA and real world impact testing loop again before settling on the final profiles you see today. Hopefully this gives a little more info for people who (like us) love the geeky details behind the development of amazing products!

Sick riding mate!