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1st Ironman victory for FFWD

26 June 2009

Francisco Pontano won the Coeur DÁlene Ironman in Idaho last Sunday. This is the first victory in an Ironman for FFWD wheels. Pontano had a very balanced race but he had the fastest time of the day on the bike. Pontano finished in a time of 8 hours and 32 minutes, ten minutes before number two. ...

Bas Diederen Dutch Champion Triathlon OD

22 June 2009

This weekend FFWD athlete Bas Diederen won the Dutch Championships Triathlon on the Olympic distance. Until the end it was not clear who would win the men’s race. Just in the final kilometer Bas left his opponents behind. The victory on the Olympic distance is his second Dutch Champion title after winning the mid distance as well two weeks ago....

New FFWD Disc Valve Adapter

22 June 2009

FFWD Wheels is introducing their own valve adapters for Disc wheels! With the 90 degree valve adapter it is easy to inflate the tire of your disc wheel. The FFWD Disc valve adapters will be sold separately....

New FFWD Valve Extensions

10 June 2009

FFWD Wheels has added valve extensions to the product line! The new FFWD valve extensions leave the valve technology itself intact. In other words, the user can open and close the valve leaving the extender fitted. Offered in anodized black, matching perfectly with the black FFWD carbon rims. The FFWD valve extender is placed on the original valve of the inner tube after......

FFWD wheels on Facebook

5 June 2009

FFWD wheels can be followed on Facebook! Today we are happy to see that we have already 100 fans following us. FFWD wheels is posting regularly news items or race reports and results on Facebook to give our fans the chance to see who is riding FFWD wheels and where. Please be welcome to follow us as well and become......

"Alpe d'HuZes" fight for cancer

4 June 2009

Today more than 1300 Dutch people are climbing the famous French mountain Alpe d'Huez to collect money for cancer research. Their goal is to climb the mountain six times. Henri Heijltjes is going for an even more extreme challenge. He set his goal to climb Alpe d'Huez 9 times! Henri took the ultimate climbing wheelset F2R to France to make his bike as......