Cycling Weekly – July 25, 2019

Cycling Weekly | July 25, 2019 | 45

HOT KIT

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160mm front and 140mm rear rotors supply huge stopping
power while CeramicSpeed bearings keep Alaphilippe’s Roval
CLX 50 Disc wheels spinning

A Gallic-flavoured

Garmin mount

French-sounding British wheel brand

Parcours was founded in 2016 by Dov

Tate, an Oxford engineering graduate

who couldn’t find an affordably priced,

aero-tested carbon clincher wheelset

that was up to his standards, so decided

to create his own.

Tate spent time in China researching

rim suppliers and also tested wheels in a

wind tunnel in North Carolina for himself

before launching his first range of three

aero wheels.

Now, three years on, there are five

Parcours wheelsets including a disc rear

wheel for time trialling costing £899 or

£919 in disc-brake format and, at the

other end of the range, an aluminium

wheelset called the Paniagua, which

costs £379 or £399 in disc-brake format.

In-between are the 40mm-rimmed

Grimpeur (£799/£819), the 56mm

Passista (£859/879) and the 77mm

Chrono (£959/£979). All the Parcours

rims are tubeless ready and follow the

trend for wider rims, with internal rim

widths of 19 or 20mm.

Parcours already has a portfolio of

sponsored athletes that includes the

Melbourne-based Kern racing team.

Can a set of Passistas make CW’s Paul

Norman even faster? Well, it seems like

Tate does know his aero onions so keep

an eye on http://www.cyclingweekly.com to

find out.

QPrice £379-979

QContact http://www.parcours.cc

QReview August

Parcours: a cheaper route

to carbon wheels?