speedlock

Asking Mavic this type of question is bound to get a list of self promoting untruths. In fact the final bead form, and first ever hump on bike rim was developed within Vittoria by me in 1995. As the trading agent for mavic in Italy, we opted to discuss it with Mavic. While the engineering team explained to me at length thay a short hook would not work, they were intrigued by the auto/moto hump. After 13 months of argument they discovered a short hook could work. They went on to try to protect it, but the hook/bump ratio is PUBLIC DOMAIN. The plan for the roll out of this technology was hatched by Vittoria's President Mr. Campagne. Having spent his life sheparding such creations as the cassette tape, and the CD while working at Philips, he knew technology needs adoption as much as creation. The original tech was called Speedlock and was to be like VHS, CD, or Intel inside. Getting rim and tire makers to finally work to a single explicit standard was my idea, tubeless was inproved by this but the intent was tims and tires fit better, everyone is safer and happier. As we were not French enough, the not invented here thing persisted, add to this a few strong personalities, and no accord will be found. The first sample of this was actually made in 1986, and as it was very challenged by the MTB rim widths of the day (too narrow) it needed better extrusion expertise, to allow wide and light rims. This ginally happened at the hands of F.I.R., Ambrosio who made the first of the category in 1996, while Mavic only had samples 6 months after the Italians. Any Speedlock/UST rim holds ANY tire better than non Soeedlock/UST rim. Since this time I have designed over 300 tire rim interface systems for WTB, AMERICAN CLASSIC, NIMBLE, FRATELLI, MACH 1, FUNN among others. Today millions of bikes are running safer because if this simple change and refinement, and a wee bit of math.