Hello dear friends, have a nice day! As the carbon wheelsets market continues to evolve, our factory is ready to start building a new batch of carbon wheelset molds. What is your Dream carbon wheelset? Please give your suggestions generously, including carbon wheelset type, inner and outer width, weight requirements, spokes and hubs, etc. Effective and practical suggestions will be adopted and surprise gifts will be given to you! Please actively participate! Thank you very much for your suggestions!
First of all props to you Leon for doing a market benchmark. Means you are smart and also doing it by feeling through what people say is what people do.
My 2 cents are the following. 1 improve your website, 2 have some fully prebuilt options rather than leaving everything for the end user (most won't understand much than
a) how they look,
b) how much they weight
c) how much they cost
d) how deep they are
Yes, you'll always have people who want fully custom bla bla bla. That's about creating and developing a super nice wheel online configurator. Much better that lightbycicle. Text me if you need help on this.
Anyway market seems to follow the trend:
1- Wavy and non wavy wheels
2- Light. Weight matters
3- Different carbon layups
4- Medium low noise hubs
5- Larger outter width. Minimum most people use nowadays is 28, and most are shifting to 30 and 32 - the larger the frame allows. Internal width minimum 21.
6- Rim brakes u probably know best the market but not sure it's worth any development in that direction.
7- Stiffness/spokes confort vs Stiffness vs maintenance
8- Dropshipping/warehouse inside the EU for faster delivery and receiving.
9- wheels for ebikes with some bits and bytes
This is a mix between business advice and wheel but I think u get the point. This industry is not so focused on this. Opportunity is not in the wheels itself;)