How to identify real Zipp 1080
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Looks to be of the right vintage where they would have sold rims to a wider variety of shops and builders to build to that era DT hub rather than a Zipp house brand hub. Looks legitimate enough. Plus that little sticker in the first picture should have a barcode of some sort. Can use that and call Zipp to confirm.
Looks to be legit. I had one, since sold, that was 2010 vintage. Can’t remember if it had external nipples or not. I seem to think it did, but can’t be sure. I had it built with a DT 190 hub instead of the 240. It was hard to get a 20hole rear hub if I remember correctly. If it’s a 10sp freehub on there it’s a simple matter to swap that out for an 11sp if that’s what you need now.
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Price for this wheel is 330€/380$. I think its better deal than those chinese weels with Novatec hubs.
Internal nipples are not the best, but rim this deep can´t go out of true, specially on TT bike.
Internal nipples are not the best, but rim this deep can´t go out of true, specially on TT bike.
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The SN# barcode is in the right place for Zipp
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First gen firecrest
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I think both that 1080 and the 808 shown above are pre Firecrest, but to be honest I can’t even remember exactly what “Firecrest” was anymore. I owned both those rims, purchased new in 2010 but built them up to DT190 hubs with black spokes. The 1080 wasn’t around all that long as ZIPP explained the discontinuation due to the 808 actually being faster, at least that was the spin they put on it. A bit like when they had all the “forward thrust” hype over their disc with the bulbous sides (sub 9 or zero or something). It actually gave a forward “lift” effect. Well, “actually” may have been a strong word, but with all the new superbikes being brought out at the time that disc often had clearance issues with the “bulge”. So they made the flatter Super 9 to replace it and guess what... even though it didn’t have the forward lift of the toroidal bulge, it was just as fast, maybe faster. I don’t know about that, but at least you could fit it in the new frames.
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