From the iconic trispoke of the Spinergy Rev X to more modern innovations like the Revolver Kameleon disc wheel, here are 5 of the coolest and quirkiest wheel designs that have changed cycling history.

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Spinergy’s. I am starting with one of the biggest revelations in wheel design during my lifetime. The company was founded by Rafe Schlanger in the early 90’s and these wheels quickly rose to fame. From side on these wheels looked as though they were a four spoke monocoque carbon design, but get up close and you can see that there are in fact eight separate carbon spokes, or blades (more on that later).

These spokes are actually connected to the rim as you can see here, and the small rivets, I think, were added to prevent the spokes coming away from one another. A kind of reinforcement if you like.
Another reinforcement that was seen added to the wheels were some sticky backed gap…