Stan's NoTubes

ZTR Hugo 52 27.5 Plus Wheelset

Fat bikes took a massive step towards mainstream last year with the inaugural fat bike national championship races, marking a distinct shift in what consumers expect from the fat bike experience. Traditionally, fat bikes have been the solid but slow, plodding workhorses of the bike world, built for transportation and Alaskan endurance events through deep winter snow. Stan's NoTubes celebrates the redefinition of a fat bike's capabilities with the ZTR Hugo 52 27.5 Plus Wheelset, the first NoTubes wheelset of its kind built to turn your fat bike into an agile machine that can roll fast and hard through all your snowy adventures.

This wheelset utilizes Stan's NoTubes tubeless technology with its signature raised center box section and low profile sidewalls that combine to provide a light, fast-rolling ride that minimizes pinch flat risk compared to traditional, taller-walled rims. The raised box sections offer up a widened platform to support the tire and spread out the tire's contact patch, which helps distribute the force of big bumps. The ride is further cushioned by the low-profile side walls, which sit nearly even with the raised center to distribute impact forces and reduce the chances of a high-pressure pinch point. This means less time shivering in the snow wrestling with flats and more time having a blast out in the powder.

As you can tell by the company name, Stan's has built its brand on providing riders with an enjoyable tubeless experience. Its Bead Socket Technology leads the industry in reliable tubeless design, and the Hugos take full advantage of this feature for a tubeless setup that's easy to inflate and boasts a seal backed by the peerless NoTubes pedigree. For riders cemented in old-school tube theory, the Hugos can also be run with tubes and still reap the benefits of their pinch-flat reducing technology. Either way, the Hugos let you see hard a fat bike can shred in the snow.

Stan's laces the Hugo rims to its 3.30 Disc hubs with Sapim Custom Force spokes for a solid, smooth ride through the snow. The Stan's No Tubes ZTR Hugo 52 27.5 Plus Wheelset is compatible with 27.5+ fat bike clincher tires paired with 27mm rim tape and will accommodate tire widths ranging from 2.8-inches up to 4-inches, with a maximum tire pressure of 30PSI.