The Strongest Wheels on the Market? Revel Wheels & “Fusion Fiber”

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4.9 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Last week on our Bikes & Big Ideas podcast, we got the backstory from 28-year-old Adam Miller about his founding of Borealis Fat Bikes, Why Cycles, and Revel Bikes, and you can hear the whole fascinating backstory on our Bikes & Big Ideas podcast, episode #25.

And today we are airing the 2nd half of our conversation, where Adam dive deep into the details about Revel’s new wheels — that he claims are the strongest wheels on the market — and this thing they’re using called “fusion fiber.” We talk about what it is; why Adam believes these wheels are the strongest; their recyclability; the unique production process; other applications of fusion fiber, and more.

TOPICS & TIMES:

Materials & Adam’s background (2:20)
Types of carbon fiber (5:57)
Testing prototypes (13:20)
What is Fusion Fiber? (15:37)
Recyclability of Fusion Fiber (18:54)
The claim: strongest wheels on the market (21:53)
Development & production process (28:08)
Other potential applications of Fusion Fiber (31:56))
Environmental considerations (36:34)

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth,
0:11.8	the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing and all of our other
0:17.7	podcasts over at blisterreview.com.
0:22.3	And just a quick reminder, yesterday we published part two of our Bikes versus Skies debate
0:28.0	over on our Bikes and Big Ideas podcast. So if you want to go through the very fun exercise
0:34.7	of trying to figure out which bike company is currently most like which
0:39.7	ski company. Just head over to our Bikes and Big Ideas podcast where you can find both
0:46.8	the episode with part one and the episode with part two. And speaking of Bikes and Big big ideas, last week I sat down at our
0:57.2	blister headquarters at Elevation Hotel here in Crested Bute, and I had a long conversation with
1:03.2	28-year-old Adam Miller, who is the founder of Borealis fat bikes and Y-Cycles and Revel bikes.
1:12.8	And we've received a ton of emails from people saying just how interesting they thought
1:18.1	Adam's backstory is, and they are definitely right about that.
1:23.1	So again, you can head over to our Bikes and Big Ideas podcast and listen to episode number 25
1:29.0	to get this entire backstory on Adam's history and how he started Borealis and YC cycles and
1:37.6	Reveld Bikes. But here today on Gear 30, we are basically airing the second half of my long conversation with
1:45.7	Adam, and today we are going to dive into the details of Revel's new wheels, and we're going to
1:52.7	talk about this thing they're using called Fusion Fiber.
1:56.7	So this is actually another really interesting story in its own right, and you're going to hear Adam explain why he believes this fusion fiber is simply a better carbon fiber.
2:08.6	And we're going to talk about what other applications this fusion fiber has beyond wheels.
2:14.9	So, yep, this is another good one, and let's go ahead and jump right into it
2:19.3	with Adam Miller. Okay, Adam Miller, we are back. We just ran through your entire history
2:32.5	up to this present moment.
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