#27.5er

27.5er MTB rims for mountain bike Customized decals!!

If you’re an MTB enthusiast, maybe an MTB professional or amateur racer, drop everything you’re doing and check this out. Most sportspersons call it quits by the time they reach their mid-30s. With mountain biking, however, that shouldn’t even be a problem.

ICAN has got something for all 35-44 years old male MTB racers, which beats everything else you’ve ever seen. Buying a mountain bike most suitable for yourself is a daunting task: there’s so much to consider in a bike. Full suspension vs hardtail, the size of the wheels and tires, all the different types of bikes: cross-country, mountain bikes, trail bikes, enduro and all-mountain, DH bikes.

However, what’s more important than all of these put together is the frame, the core of a bike. Like the rest of the bike, frames of numerous different sizes and specifications are available, but you must know enough about each before you choose the best.

Frames are usually made of an Aluminium mix, which keeps the structure light, all the while retaining its strength. Carbon frames, however, are tough, strong, surprisingly lightweight and a knock-absorbing material.

Albeit more expensive, the latter is generally more preferred. With rough terrains and long distance rides, the carbon frame endures much better, without a doubt.

The ICAN Carbon frame is of a particularly convenient light weight, 2368g to be precise. This is an advantage when you’re climbing or on the flat, because you don’t have much gravitational force and friction to overcome. Carbon frames also respond to movements of pedals or the bars briskly.

Now, when it comes to axle spacing, any website and any review coming from a legitimate source would tell you the same thing: the wider, the better. With this in mind, ICAN introduces the 27.5+ Carbon MTB Boost Frame, made of 100% carbon fiber Toray T700.

With a UD Matt and a clear coating finish, the frame is of a light 2368g weight and comes in various sizes: S, M and L. The wheel size, as specified in the name itself, is 27.5+ which gives you a better grip.

Wide tires can provide great traction and a negligible loss in rolling resistance.

This tire size tends to climb better by conforming to the terrain easily without dissipating momentum while riding over rocks and crevices.

What’s so special about this ICAN carbon frame?

Incorporating the latest and best axle characteristics have taken on by all good performance mountain bike frame manufacturers, Boost provides a widened rear axle and front axle.

Wider axles mean that the space between the flanges of your hub can be increased, which consequently improves the bracing angles of the spokes in the wheel build.

All in all, you get a stiffer, stronger and more efficient wheel. A few years ago, the 100*15mm front and 142*12mm rear axles were really common and were a trait of most of the best bikes. In recent times, however, an inclination towards increased wheel stiffness led manufacturers to widen the axle spacing to the ‘Boost’ frame. The shock absorber seems great fit with the frame, incorporating the dimensions 200*51mm in size. A stiffer interface with the frame and a highly improved durability.

You need no longer fret about taking your bike through questionable terrain conditions: your ICAN MTB Boost Frame can carry you, come hell or high water (not really exaggerating)! The Boost makes quite the noticeable difference in performance which, if you’ve owned older bikes, you are bound to notice!

The size of your bike’s tires, too, is an important consideration and must be determined with respect to what purpose you intend to use the bike for. For instance, the larger 29-inch wheels is dynamically fast everywhere.

The rate at which it covers ground is incredible, with its large diameter helping it roll well, giving great traction. In wet climate when the ground is muddy and more difficult to traverse, the 29er is the perfect go-to.

The 27.5-inch size builds a wheel that is strong, with some of the 29er’s increased grip and roll-over combined with a 26er’s familiar feel. Little to no adjustment time is needed with these agile, quick turning wheel size. The 27.5er is suitable for a familiar terrain.

Choose whichever size you will, because the extraordinary ICAN Boost Frame can match all of these sizes! Rough terrains inevitably call for good shock absorbing bikes. The MTB Boost Frame has got you covered here, as well.

Being a full suspension frame, it pays special attention to shock absorbing qualities. We recommend Rockshox. In most mountain bikes the rear shock often gets a tad overlooked. Other kinds of shock absorbers include enduro shocks, trail shocks and downhill shocks.

All the requisite shock absorbing geometry is provided in the MTB Boost Frame which, while making the bike slightly heavier, protect the bike and its rider well from all possible kinds of damage. This quality, combined with a skilled hand, ensures a smooth and glitch-free riding experience.

ICAN uses high-quality bearings, thereby ensuring faster and smoother movement and long-lasting effects. Now, any bike, however stiff and strong, is incomplete without comfortable seating, right? Fortunately, the ICAN Carbon Frame provides a seat clamp of 34.9mm and a seat of 31.6mm.

This, in non-numerical means comfortable and adjustable seating. The true power of a mountain bike, at the hands of a skilled rider, is never completely unleashed unless the rider is at ease. ICAN takes this aspect, too, into serious consideration.

To summarize, the highlights of the remarkable ICAN 27.5+ Carbon MTB Boost Frame are as follows:

Full Carbon Suspension type MTB frame

5+ wheel size

UD matte weave with a clear coating finish

A lightweight frame, 2368g to be precise

Varying frame sizes: S/M/L

6mm seat and 34.9mm seat clamp providing for comfortable seating

148*12mm axle

650B+ axle

27.5+ carbon MTB Boost frame 148mm

One can, thereby, conclude without a doubt that the 27.5+ Carbon MTB Boost Frame is made for a killer mountain bike, with its modern geometry and suspension kinematics serving for a stable, fast and enjoyable ride on almost all terrains.

Considering all its characteristics and its brilliant build, the frame is really a catch, at quite a reasonable price. With great ease and utmost comfort, enjoy your smooth rides as you own all the land that surrounds you. ICAN brings you a riding experience to absolutely enjoy and always remember! Go fast, go smooth and enjoy your rides without any inhibitions.

Biking is such an amazing activity, it wouldn’t be fair to put an age limit on it. Sure, with age, people lose resilience and have a harder time keeping up. That doesn’t necessarily mean an early retirement from such a fun sport! This is for all the not-so-old people who already feel too old to keep the sportsperson in themselves alive: age is just a number, don’t let it take your bike away.

Purchase the ICAN 27.5+ Carbon MTB Boost Frame immediately, and enjoy your sturdy, shock-absorbing, swift and smooth ride through all the terrain you wish to conquer.

Have you been racing enduro? Dropping off cliffs? Bought one of our carbon S7 frames? Feel like pimping your bike up? Well, these carbon Boost wheels are just what you have been looking for, and as with all ICAN products it comes with our phenomenal value for money.

What is Boost sizing?

Boost as a sizing has been growing in popularity in the mountain bike world over the last few years. The basics of Boost are that you now have a front hub that measures 110 x 15mm and a rear hub measuring 148 x 12mm. Speaking of hubs, we spec Novatec hubs on this wheelset.

We use Novatec as they are easily serviceable, run sealed bearings, and are becoming a byword for reliability in the cycling world. As we have a huge range of Novatec hubs in stock, we have the various freehub bodies that you may need.

Whether you run a traditional Shimano freehub or a new SRAM XD driver, we will have them in stock, no need to compromise on wheel choice due to freehub design.

The great thing about Novatec hubs coming in the new Boost spacing is that the hubs have become stronger and allow us to build you a much stiffer wheelset.

As the front hub is now 10mm wider (5mm each side) than a standard hub and the back end has become 6mm wider (3mm each side), we can have hub flanges that are further apart, it may only seem a small change but it makes a world of difference.

Stiff and strong enduro wheels

The reason for Boost was that small wheels were strong and stiffer than larger wheels. A 26” wheel will naturally be stronger and stiffer than a 29” wheel.

This is because the spoke bracing angle was bigger on smaller wheels. This means that your wheel could survive more lateral forces being used against it, think about riding aggressively.

Making wheels bigger but not increasing hub width caused this angle to get smaller and make wheels less robust. Boost was then born as a way to stop this happening and with Boost our 27.5” wheel has a spoke bracing angle identical to a 26” wheel.

Not only did Boost help to solve the strong and stiff wheel conundrum but it also opened up the idea of rear triangle space.

By going wider we could have frames that allowed more travel, more tyre room, and shorter chainstays with no penalty compared to the old standards.

Just look at our P9 frame to see how much this small increase in width has allowed our frames to evolve. By shortening the chainstays, we have returned to agile, playful bikes and with wider, stiffer suspension bushings we have a stronger back end on our frames.

You can now have a bike that will roll as fast due to the bigger wheels but also be as stiff and playful as a smaller wheel size.

Maximise your tyre space

The best way to take advantage of Boost spacing is to maximize the amount of room it frees up in frames for tyres. Look at our P8 frame, a frame that can easily clear 3” tyres.

So why would you not want to fill all that space? Once you get to 2.5” tyres you will want to jump up to a plus-sized rim; otherwise your tyre will become a light bulb shape. If your tyre is light bulb shaped it means the tyre is constricted and you will be losing traction and cornering stability.

This is why we offer the wheelset in a rim width of 35mm or 40mm, think of 35mm as going up to 2.5” and 40mm going up to 3”.The biggest issue though with plus size internal width rims or AM style rims is that they are heavy, all that extra material comes at a price. As cyclists, we all know we want to lower rotational weight.

That is why we tasked our R&D department with making a lightweight but strong enough to last through any trail all mountain wheelset. They went back to the start and looked at how best to maximise carbon layup and carbon type to get the best wheel rim bang for your buck.

We could have just have taken a load of carbon and built a lightweight wheel, but that would not work in the real world. We had to look at how people ride and how we get the excellent riding feel of carbon wheels.

Which means the rims have to be super stiff but also have a small amount of vertical deflection to help dissipate trail chatter.So we worked hard and by using Toray T700 carbon fibres, have come up with the best rim in a weight/price/stiffness ratio.

Better than aluminium

Using carbon allows us to help protect you from the flat spots that could happen on aluminium rims when you hit a large object, and trails tend to have a lot of hidden large objects.

This will hamper your spoke tension, and that gives your wheel a nice wobbly trajectory. Our carbon rims will save you from that misery and as our wheels leave the factory checked to some of the highest tolerances you can be sure you will always be rolling straight.

Watch one of our carbon wheels hit a rock, deform and then spring back to a perfectly round shape, and you will be sold on our wheels.

You can now gain all of these benefits for the price of a mid-range aluminium wheel. So why stick with aluminium when you can step up to the high tech world of carbon fibre and make your riding time much more fun.