Tune Alpin & Rensport Technik

[Jan Atienza]

FUNCTIONAL ART




An obscure and cult-ish German brand specializing in hub production since the early 70's. Founded by Uli Fahl, a grease/chemical engineer specializing in viscous drag and bearing applications. Olympics and World Cup proven, ridden by Gunn Rita Dahle-Flesja, Jan Ullrich, and Markus Klausmann.

"Standard" hub specs/Profile

Weight: Front Hub 139 gms to 117gms
Weight: Rear Hub 225 gms to 190gms
Use: XC to All Mountain to Light Freeride
Marathon to Downhill variants available
Finish: Shot peened and anodized
Bearings: 2x Front; 6x rear with 2x read as double bearings
Engagement: 4
Price of wheelset: approximates an XTR wheelset, more affordable than Mavic SLs
Fully serviceable in the Phils? Yes
Custom building? Yes
Where at? Extreme-Standard and full accessories (SERVICE CENTER); Cycle Options-Superscharf; Bikeroom-Skyline; Raven's-Downhill Series (catalogue); Cycle Tote-Visayas

Review:

Ridden on roads, and submerged at the car wash, hehehe. Seriously, had its share of roads and trails, miniscule high speed drops, pebble gardens, and some creek/river crossings. Still buttery smooth...... as CK headsets go, ika nga. Fast on descents, then again it could be my weight.

Finish-wise, CK still tops this department due to its wet-look finish... but is comparative to Mavic, Hadley and Hope (with the only matte finish). Apparently, Tune has no plans of changing this finishing process since shot peening involves blasting a residual stress layer to the material which stiffens and lengthens hub/material life by 15 percent; Vis-a-vis bead blasting finishes wherein an abrasive grit is blasted to the material to smoothen and preserve finishes.

Weight-wise, comparable only to Amclassic (2nd) but with a longer breadth in discipline, and better styling.

Engagement-wise, approximates Amclassic's 6 pawl (x12) bite despite it's 4 pawl make-up but definitely better than Shimano. CKs utilize 72 direct ratchets which is a variation of the Amclassic engagement. I guess a further review on whose engagement system is more effective should be started.

All in all, a good enough buy if you plan to maintain only 1 bike for do-it-all almost excursions. Hope this is a fair enough review

[Taba®]

I have several Tune parts - King and Superschaft Kong, one 25.4 stem, one OS stem, wurgers, seatposts, saddles and 2 fastfoot cranks (red and silver), I have no worries and complaints. All good buys and they've served their purpose on my bikes. If I have the budget, I'll buy Tune parts...medyo maselan when installing but once installed it is as smooth as silk and no compromise on it's stiffness and performance...

[Jan Atienza]

A rough translation of this article recently:

The huge package feels like nothing is in it. Dammned the boys from tune have forgotten to put the

wheels inside. Oh shite there is one! It cannot be possible that this is a real

freeride/downhill wheelset. 2338 g! (it´s a error, the weight is 1612g) The tune hubs together with the 460 g NoTubes Flow rims

and Aerolight spokes marks the absolute record in the hardcore region. No restrictions from tune.

So off to the bike park. The bikes feels like 3 kilos less, accelerates enormously and reacts much

more directly in the air. It makes you an addict. With the tubeless set you can ride also tubeless

but only above 2 bar pressure otherwise you loose air after hard landings. Indeed we had not the smallest problems after 6 months abuse, Even the rims are without any bulges.

[randiezbee]

i will wait for this jan and this will be my next wheelset for my VPX

[randiezbee]

i will have you soon my tune hubs