Review: FSE Filament-Wound Wheels
images by Nick Salazar
Jan 14, 2019 
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Over the past 5-10 years, there has been a lot of homogenizing of the marketplace. So when I see something truly new, I tend to get excited. Today we're looking at rims by FSE, which are made by an entirely different process from most carbon wheels in the industry. It's made by a filament-winding process. That's right in the name: FSE stands for Filament Spin Evolution. Instead of being laid up in a mold with individual sheets of carbon, FSE rims are wound from a spool of tensioned carbon thread, in a continuous fashion, reducing the number of manual processes in the creation and resulting in a more uniform construction. Check out the full article for all the info.
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