Anyone know how this guy MIGHT have done this? Pretty slick looking!
Done what? This looks like an older HED disc they made a bit ago. Or is the tire coming off…can’t tell on my phone?
There was a guy not to long ago that said he made one…It was on the classifieds if you can track it down.
I thought there were a few of those out in the world…
Not that hard AT ALL if you have the experience in composites. I wager it’s a simple skin over a core on both sides. I looked over a couple pics, and this dude did some slick work.
it puts the carbon
in the holes
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it puts the carbon
in the holes
Creepy… 
it puts the carbon
in the holes
Actually, it puts a core in the holes and covers the works with carbon.
Here’s a good diy product…
http://forum.slowtwitch.com/gforum.cgi?post=3125646;search_string=diy%20campled;#3125646
Why would you do that?.. for looks?
If you can turn an H3 into a disc, you’d be better off turning a different wheel into a disc to get that lenticular shape?
That is nice! Thanks!
I have one of those myself, and it’s not a home build. By the description of the wheel you’re looking at on eBay (with the manufacturing dots in the carbon), it also sounds like a genuine from the factory H3 disc. It’s a fast wheel no doubt but weighs about 1300 gr in 650c clincher.
or a flat one, on some bikes.
If you can turn an H3 into a disc, you’d be better off turning a different wheel into a disc to get that lenticular shape?
As mentioned, some people have DIY’d it.
For a short period of time HED actually made a “disc” version of its trispoke (it was lighter than their disc at the time…this is pre Jet Disc). I recall Macca having one at Wildflower in the mid-00s.
As others have pointed out as well as you, I was not aware that HED ever made these. I just happened to see it on Ebay and thought it was interesting. I ordered a JET disc, but I like to dilly dally and thought about trying to do this to my H3 rear.
The pics in this link look like he did a really nice job converting his.
i have an old one and it looks WAY cool
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There were some originals made like this. Macca rode one at IM Australia in 2003. I seem to recall Hed making a statement that the quality control from manufacturing wasn’t up to standard and dropped it due to unreliable tolerances.
I own Greg Bennet’s old one from HED. It is awesome and has served me very well. I got it in 2003 or 04.
Bruyneel wanted USPS to use it one year for the Tour, but it didn’t fit in their frames at the time.
Trev
yep. i think it is an older model. seen somebody else with the same profile.
It was called the HED.3D. I spoke to a guy at HED. a few years ago about those wheels. He said the wheel was tested and they found no significant difference between it and the HED.3, so they abandoned it. They also made one called the “HED.3 Kona” (even more rare) with small openings near the hub to be a legal “almost disc” for Kona. Another thing he mentioned was how it would “turn heads” in the lab when testing. Every time they spun it up the sound was like a helicopter taking off.
If not faster, at least the intimidation factor would be cool.