Fit Bike Co. has a new video bike check with Van Homan and with it comes a whole slew of riding clips that’s sure to get you guys stoked. Van rides Birdcage rims laced onto Marmoset and Ratchet hubs.
Our Birdcage rim will be available soon through dealers in about 2 weeks. You can get it in Hard Anodized Black, Matte Army Green, Hard Anodized Blue and Hard Anodized Red. It’ll also be available in CHROME later on!
We just built up these wheels for Andrew Jackson. They’re Birdcages laced onto Marmoset and Ratchet hubs using our Taper-Hex Nipples!
Someone told me a few years ago that there was nothing new left to do with BMX rims, yet since then we have gone on to do quite a lot of new stuff, and here’s an example of the latest. At first glance the Birdcage looks like a fairly conventional “aero” style rim, but there is more to it than that. The first clue comes from the name; birds have hollow bones to save weight whilst retaining as much strength as possible, and the Birdcage rim has a hollow bead for the same reason. The rim’s hollow bead is still big and chunky to help reduce the chances of pinch puncturing or flat spotting the rim, but by creating a tiny hollow cavity inside it we can also keep the weight right down.