Zipp 404 Firecrest Carbon Clincher Tubeless 6-Bolt Disc Brake Front Wheel White

The Zipp Nest continues to plough into the road wheel market with fresh new ideas and improvements striving to make a wheel to do it all. Continuing with the rising trend, disc brakes are of course on the menu at Zipps. Zipps 404 Firecrest Tubeless Disc-brake is all about road riding and racing. In use at the highest levels of professional cycling and triathlon, disc-brakes are poised for growth in all sorts of road riding. As for speed, the 404 Firecrest is where the Firecrest Revolution began. If you had to choose just one wheel, the 404 Firecrest should be your choice.

Without the constraints of rim brake calliper compatibility or brake-track requirements, the new Firecrest Carbon Clincher Tubeless Disc-brake wheels offer the increased stopping power and modulation of disc brakes and a whole lot more.

To maximize the aero performance of the wheels, Zipps ABLC dimples extend all the way to the outer edge of the disc-specific rims. The new wheels are also optimized for wider tyres to meet the performance needs of modern riders in search of low rolling resistance and aero efficiency with high comfort. In developing these wheelsets, Zipp engineers examined three different external rim shape concepts, and within each of those shapes, four separate internal widths before selecting the most efficient design. The 404 Firecrest Tubeless Disc brake has an internal width of 19mm and are aerodynamically optimized for 25mm wide tyres. The refined rim shape improves Firecrests ability to yield low aerodynamic drag and high crosswind stability, a combination we call AeroBalance.

Designed to be tubeless compatible, the wheels feature a rim bed made with internal ridges to lock the tyres bead in place, ensuring secure performance even when ridden at lower tyre pressures. Zipps low rolling resistance and high grip Tangente RT28 and RT25 Road Tubeless tyres pair well with the new Firecrest disc brake wheels.