I attended a Campagnolo training session on July 19th, and while the technical instruction on the wireless Super Record EPS was fine enough,
there was a Hyperon Ultra DB on display.
The rim height is 37mm, making it taller than the Bora WTO, which is the lowest rim height at 33mm.
The rear wheel has equal spoke count on both sides (not G3), and
the front wheel uses a 2:1 pattern,
but even then it's not G3 laced, so that's how it's differentiated.
The front wheel's 2:1 pattern is XI (X-eye) lacing.
Since the front wheel has only modest flange height and uses high-low flanges,
I guess they figured XI lacing could work.
Personally speaking, for a wheel of this character,
I prefer Fulcrum's Speed 25.
The reason is it's closer to "the strongest wheel design I came up with,"
but Speed 25 has a rim height of 26mm (not 25mm),
and the front wheel uses 2:1 lacing only
with (2+1)×8 pairs at 24H with Ж (jay) lacing,
but since there's not much radial difference between the high and low flanges,
the final tangent crossing of the tangent lacing
is quite close to the hub.
The Hyperon Ultra DB comes in tubular rim specification, but
the image above is the 2WAY-FIT rim (tubeless rim) specification.
The split-in spacer-like part attached to the hub axle
is unrelated to the hub end as a whole, so
even with it removed, the wheel functions.
This spacer-like part
hides the notch where the hub wrench goes, and
should the bearing adjustment nut loosen by any chance,
it acts as a stopper that only allows it to loosen until it hits this part.
The specification of this part is the same as the Bora WTO that's been around for a while.
In other words, the hub axle is also a common part with the Bora WTO.
In the tubular specification, the end of the split part
was changed to a shape related to the locknut dimension.
I do wonder about having a split part where wheel fixing pressure is applied,
but Chris King's R45D hub has a similar structure.
Since the dimensions and shapes of the hub axle differ when removing these two types of ends and split parts,
they are not compatible.
Not just the end part, but the hub axle itself is different.
↑2WAY-FIT
↑Tubular
The rim specification difference means the front wheel end is different too.
Whether only the initial batch of Hyperon Ultra DB
uses the same hub axle specification as the Bora WTO
and subsequently both 2WAY-FIT and tubular will move to the same spec,
or whether this difference is the correct state, remains unclear at this point.
The person from the wholesaler most knowledgeable about Campagnolo in Japan
recently had a spinal fracture, so they were wearing a corset.
When I asked about it later, apparently they were riding an MTB,
fell on their back,
and happened to have something hard on their back at the time,
which caused their spine to fracture.
When asked whether the components on that MTB were Campagnolo,
they didn't answer.
So this time, we're having what we're calling the Spine Explosion Sale,
selling Campagnolo short-sleeve jerseys and the Bora WTO DB
at special prices.
Some might say it's bad taste to make merchandise out of someone else's misfortune (injury)...
This is part of an order FAX our shop sent to the wholesaler most knowledgeable about Campagnolo in Japan.
For the long vowel marks in Campagnolo,
we draw them as a wiggly snake,
and among the order items, Campagnolo parts are
listed below a fluffy speech bubble with Campagnolo written inside,
and Fulcrum parts are listed
below a long-bodied dog with three hind legs and Fulcrum written on its body.
We follow this requested format every time (→here).
I don't know if other shops do the same.
By the way, the official name of this dog is Fulcrum Ken (犬).
Calling it Fulcrum Inu (犬) is apparently incorrect.
They seem to have a particular fastidiousness, like calling it Matsusaka Ushi (牛) or Akita Inu (犬).
On the day, I was given a wear order form, but
instead of sending it back by FAX later, I collected the order right there on the spot,
and on the blank space of the paper, I drew a Fulcrum dog wearing a corset around its body and handed it over...
The person from the wholesaler most knowledgeable about Campagnolo in Japan
has set that Fulcrum dog I drew at that moment as their Facebook profile icon,
so since they're making it a joke too, I judged it was okay to make it a joke!
This morning, when I stopped by the wholesaler that's the only one in Japan handling Pinarello for some business,
someone from that wholesaler's staff told me about this.
Apparently by the next day (July 20th) after the training session,
it had become this.
So first, here's the introduction to the discounted wear.
This is the Indio Jersey, a short-sleeve jersey.
Like the color scheme of Campagnolo's current wheelbag,
in blue/light blue, and
black/gray we've stocked.
This is the Paradio Jersey, a short-sleeve jersey.
At the Japanese wholesaler it's listed as New Paradio Jersey,
so there must be an older model with the same name and they avoid confusion that way.
The color name is black, but what's called the black part
is more of a dark gray if anything.
And it has the Italian tricolor running through the body section.
This is also Paradio Jersey
with the color name Terra di Siena/Blue, but
since that seemed unclear,
the Japanese wholesaler calls it Brown/Blue instead.
The blue here too is more of a navy
that's almost gray rather than truly blue.
Listed in Japan as Azote Vest,
but it's essentially a gilet.
The label on the bag says
Azote Gilet.
The front is windbreaker material,
but the back is mesh for heat dissipation priority.
We're selling these in size M and L mainly at special prices.
I can't write the price. That's an in-store customer benefit.
↑I didn't need to put out all of them with duplicates,
but well, saying "these are all the ones we have" is easier, so whatever
As long as the wholesaler has stock, we can order
other models (※) and sizes.
※Neon Jersey and Ossigeno Jersey can also be ordered.
We're posting the sale price and colors at our shop.
This is the Paradio Jersey from earlier, and
as expected, the catalog images
look better than our hangers on display.
Next, the Indio Jersey.
Green can also be ordered if it's not sold out.
This is the Neon Jersey model,
which we didn't stock this time,
but its blue is closer to the wheelbag color than the Indio Jersey's blue.
This is the Ossigeno Jersey model.
The version with gray as the color name, white body and gray sleeves,
is already sold out.
Potaggio Socks we didn't stock this time,
but gray-black and solid black versions can be ordered.
But...
The blue version we do have a bit of inventory of at the shop.
This isn't from when I stocked some previously and
wrote an article about it (→here),
but when I later said I wanted to order more,
the wholesaler suggested,
"You know that story where a university coop accidentally ordered thousands of milk tea and pudding,
tweeted 'Please buy them! Help us!' and it went viral and everyone came to buy them and saved the day?
Why don't you write an article pretending to be that kind of situation, like 'we overbought teehee'?"
They proposed I do a self-parody of an accidental overorder.
I said if it's okay to write about that background, I'll buy them,
so "alright, send all you have," but
not very much arrived,
so when I asked about it later,
they said that when they did a quick sale event at Cycle Mode Tokyo,
almost all of it sold, sorry about that.
Since blue was sold out by the time of this sale,
it seems this really was the final inventory.
Next,
the introduction to the special sale on Bora WTO DB (not Ultra).
The regular retail price including tax is ¥388,300, but
the selling price is posted in the usual place.
My personal preference for non-Ultra Bora WTO DB is
33 spokes, but general popularity is obviously
45 spokes, so I stocked the 45 dark label.
This sale runs until August 10th, but
during the sale period, 33 and 60 spoke versions and the 45 bright label
can also be ordered at the same price.
Please consider it.
Also, part of the sales from this sale will,
as the sale name itself suggests,
go toward purchasing supplements reputed to help with bone fractures
as a gift for the wholesaler staff member whose spine fractured.
there was a Hyperon Ultra DB on display.
The rim height is 37mm, making it taller than the Bora WTO, which is the lowest rim height at 33mm.
The rear wheel has equal spoke count on both sides (not G3), and
the front wheel uses a 2:1 pattern,
but even then it's not G3 laced, so that's how it's differentiated.
The front wheel's 2:1 pattern is XI (X-eye) lacing.
Since the front wheel has only modest flange height and uses high-low flanges,
I guess they figured XI lacing could work.
Personally speaking, for a wheel of this character,
I prefer Fulcrum's Speed 25.
The reason is it's closer to "the strongest wheel design I came up with,"
but Speed 25 has a rim height of 26mm (not 25mm),
and the front wheel uses 2:1 lacing only
with (2+1)×8 pairs at 24H with Ж (jay) lacing,
but since there's not much radial difference between the high and low flanges,
the final tangent crossing of the tangent lacing
is quite close to the hub.
The Hyperon Ultra DB comes in tubular rim specification, but
the image above is the 2WAY-FIT rim (tubeless rim) specification.
The split-in spacer-like part attached to the hub axle
is unrelated to the hub end as a whole, so
even with it removed, the wheel functions.
This spacer-like part
hides the notch where the hub wrench goes, and
should the bearing adjustment nut loosen by any chance,
it acts as a stopper that only allows it to loosen until it hits this part.
The specification of this part is the same as the Bora WTO that's been around for a while.
In other words, the hub axle is also a common part with the Bora WTO.
In the tubular specification, the end of the split part
was changed to a shape related to the locknut dimension.
I do wonder about having a split part where wheel fixing pressure is applied,
but Chris King's R45D hub has a similar structure.
Since the dimensions and shapes of the hub axle differ when removing these two types of ends and split parts,
they are not compatible.
Not just the end part, but the hub axle itself is different.
↑2WAY-FIT
↑Tubular
The rim specification difference means the front wheel end is different too.
Whether only the initial batch of Hyperon Ultra DB
uses the same hub axle specification as the Bora WTO
and subsequently both 2WAY-FIT and tubular will move to the same spec,
or whether this difference is the correct state, remains unclear at this point.
The person from the wholesaler most knowledgeable about Campagnolo in Japan
recently had a spinal fracture, so they were wearing a corset.
When I asked about it later, apparently they were riding an MTB,
fell on their back,
and happened to have something hard on their back at the time,
which caused their spine to fracture.
they didn't answer.
So this time, we're having what we're calling the Spine Explosion Sale,
selling Campagnolo short-sleeve jerseys and the Bora WTO DB
at special prices.
Some might say it's bad taste to make merchandise out of someone else's misfortune (injury)...
This is part of an order FAX our shop sent to the wholesaler most knowledgeable about Campagnolo in Japan.
For the long vowel marks in Campagnolo,
we draw them as a wiggly snake,
and among the order items, Campagnolo parts are
listed below a fluffy speech bubble with Campagnolo written inside,
and Fulcrum parts are listed
below a long-bodied dog with three hind legs and Fulcrum written on its body.
We follow this requested format every time (→here).
I don't know if other shops do the same.
By the way, the official name of this dog is Fulcrum Ken (犬).
Calling it Fulcrum Inu (犬) is apparently incorrect.
They seem to have a particular fastidiousness, like calling it Matsusaka Ushi (牛) or Akita Inu (犬).
On the day, I was given a wear order form, but
instead of sending it back by FAX later, I collected the order right there on the spot,
and on the blank space of the paper, I drew a Fulcrum dog wearing a corset around its body and handed it over...
The person from the wholesaler most knowledgeable about Campagnolo in Japan
has set that Fulcrum dog I drew at that moment as their Facebook profile icon,
so since they're making it a joke too, I judged it was okay to make it a joke!
This morning, when I stopped by the wholesaler that's the only one in Japan handling Pinarello for some business,
someone from that wholesaler's staff told me about this.
Apparently by the next day (July 20th) after the training session,
it had become this.
So first, here's the introduction to the discounted wear.
This is the Indio Jersey, a short-sleeve jersey.
Like the color scheme of Campagnolo's current wheelbag,
in blue/light blue, and
black/gray we've stocked.
This is the Paradio Jersey, a short-sleeve jersey.
At the Japanese wholesaler it's listed as New Paradio Jersey,
so there must be an older model with the same name and they avoid confusion that way.
The color name is black, but what's called the black part
is more of a dark gray if anything.
And it has the Italian tricolor running through the body section.
This is also Paradio Jersey
with the color name Terra di Siena/Blue, but
since that seemed unclear,
the Japanese wholesaler calls it Brown/Blue instead.
The blue here too is more of a navy
that's almost gray rather than truly blue.
Listed in Japan as Azote Vest,
but it's essentially a gilet.
The label on the bag says
Azote Gilet.
The front is windbreaker material,
but the back is mesh for heat dissipation priority.
We're selling these in size M and L mainly at special prices.
I can't write the price. That's an in-store customer benefit.
but well, saying "these are all the ones we have" is easier, so whatever
As long as the wholesaler has stock, we can order
other models (※) and sizes.
※Neon Jersey and Ossigeno Jersey can also be ordered.
We're posting the sale price and colors at our shop.
This is the Paradio Jersey from earlier, and
as expected, the catalog images
look better than our hangers on display.
Next, the Indio Jersey.
Green can also be ordered if it's not sold out.
This is the Neon Jersey model,
which we didn't stock this time,
but its blue is closer to the wheelbag color than the Indio Jersey's blue.
This is the Ossigeno Jersey model.
The version with gray as the color name, white body and gray sleeves,
is already sold out.
Potaggio Socks we didn't stock this time,
but gray-black and solid black versions can be ordered.
But...
The blue version we do have a bit of inventory of at the shop.
This isn't from when I stocked some previously and
wrote an article about it (→here),
but when I later said I wanted to order more,
the wholesaler suggested,
"You know that story where a university coop accidentally ordered thousands of milk tea and pudding,
tweeted 'Please buy them! Help us!' and it went viral and everyone came to buy them and saved the day?
Why don't you write an article pretending to be that kind of situation, like 'we overbought teehee'?"
They proposed I do a self-parody of an accidental overorder.
I said if it's okay to write about that background, I'll buy them,
so "alright, send all you have," but
not very much arrived,
so when I asked about it later,
they said that when they did a quick sale event at Cycle Mode Tokyo,
almost all of it sold, sorry about that.
Since blue was sold out by the time of this sale,
it seems this really was the final inventory.
Next,
the introduction to the special sale on Bora WTO DB (not Ultra).
The regular retail price including tax is ¥388,300, but
the selling price is posted in the usual place.
My personal preference for non-Ultra Bora WTO DB is
33 spokes, but general popularity is obviously
45 spokes, so I stocked the 45 dark label.
This sale runs until August 10th, but
during the sale period, 33 and 60 spoke versions and the 45 bright label
can also be ordered at the same price.
Please consider it.
Also, part of the sales from this sale will,
as the sale name itself suggests,
go toward purchasing supplements reputed to help with bone fractures
as a gift for the wholesaler staff member whose spine fractured.