PRO TEXTREME Carbon 3-Spoke Tubular Front Wheel

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PRO | SKU: PRWH0038 | Option: Black

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PRO TEXTREME Carbon 3-Spoke Tubular Front Wheel Info

The PRO TEXTREME Carbon 3-Spoke Tubular Front Wheel is a purpose-built time trial wheel developed through a direct collaboration between PRO and Team Sky, the WorldTour squad that helped shape it during development. PRO is Shimano's in-house component brand, building wheels, bars, posts, and saddles alongside Shimano's drivetrains, and this wheel carries that pro-team pedigree directly: it debuted at the opening team time trial of the Vuelta a España, built through what PRO calls a "Co Creation" process with the riders who'd actually race on it. A three-spoke front wheel occupies a specific niche in the wheel world. It holds a line in a straight headwind, stays composed in a crosswind, and does both while staying laterally stiff under hard efforts out of the saddle, which is why the format has stayed popular in time trial and triathlon racing even as full disc wheels have taken over on the rear.

The wheel is built primarily from TeXtreme carbon fiber cloth, a material that uses spread-tow fabric in place of the woven yarns found in more conventional carbon layups. PRO chose it because spread-tow construction is engineered to deliver a stiffer, lighter structure than standard weave, and it leaves behind a distinctive checkerboard pattern on the rim and spokes rather than the uniform matte or gloss finish most carbon wheels share. It's a look that doubles as a material signature: you can tell at a glance this wheel is built differently from a standard three-spoke design. PRO paired the look intentionally with its TeXtreme rear disc wheel, so a rider running both gets a matched aero front-and-rear setup rather than two wheels that merely happen to be black.

At the center of the wheel sits a Shimano Dura-Ace 9000 front hub, a hub PRO leaned on for its smooth roll and long-term durability rather than reinventing the hub internals to match the aero rim. The three spokes themselves are directional, marked as such on the wheel so they get installed the correct way, and shaped to keep airflow attached across a range of yaw angles rather than just straight into the wind. The rim runs a 65mm depth, a mid-depth profile rather than an ultra-deep TT-only shape, at 24mm of width, and the complete wheel weighs 765 grams. That combination sits in a middle ground between all-out aero depth and a weight a rider can still turn over on rolling terrain, rather than a wheel that's only fast in a dead-flat time trial and dead weight anywhere else. It's a rim brake wheel, with the carbon rim itself doing double duty as the braking surface rather than routing to a disc rotor.

Running this wheel day to day comes with a few practical notes worth knowing before buying. The braking surface is carbon, so it needs carbon-specific brake pads rather than standard pads made for aluminum rims, and they'll stop differently than an alloy rim does, especially in the wet. Because it's a tubular, tires need to be glued or taped on rather than simply inflated, and PRO recommends nothing narrower than a 24mm tire to keep a clean transition between tire and rim. The valve is also recessed enough that a valve extender of at least 65mm is required to reach a floor pump or CO2 head. On the plus side, the wheel ships with its own quick release skewer and a wheel bag, and if a rider wants a speedometer magnet, a sticker-style magnet is the practical choice since the directional spoke design doesn't leave an obvious spot for a traditional spoke-mounted magnet.

This is a wheel built for a specific kind of riding: time trials, the bike leg of a triathlon, and flat-to-rolling road races where holding an aero position and minimizing drag matters more than climbing weight. It's not the wheel to reach for on a mountainous group ride or a gravel day, but on a flat 40k time trial course or a triathlon bike leg, that's exactly the terrain this shape was developed to handle. It's sold here as a single front wheel rather than a set, in black, and it's marked as final sale. For a rider who already knows they want a three-spoke front paired with a disc rear, or who's specifically chasing the wind-tunnel-informed shape that came out of a real WorldTour development process, this is a wheel with a legitimate racing pedigree behind it, at a meaningful discount off its original price, rather than just a name borrowed from one.

The RA Perspective

This wheel has one of the more legitimate development stories we see come through the shop. PRO built it with Team Sky, and it actually raced at the Vuelta a España before it ever showed up on a shelf. That's a different pedigree than a wheel that just borrows aero language in its marketing copy.

The TeXtreme checkerboard finish is the first thing anyone notices, but the ride character is what matters. A three-spoke front holds its line better than most riders expect in a crosswind, and this one stays stiff under hard efforts, which you notice most when you're out of the saddle attacking a headwind section on a time trial course. The tradeoff is that it's a specialist's wheel. On anything other than flat-to-rolling terrain, that mid-depth 65mm rim and the aero shape stop paying off the way they should.

A couple of things to know before building this into a setup: it's tubular, so budget time for gluing or taping tires, and it needs carbon-specific brake pads since the rim itself is the braking surface. The valve is recessed enough that a standard extender won't cut it — you'll want one rated for at least 65mm.

We'd point this at a rider who's already running a disc rear and wants a front wheel to match, or someone building a dedicated time trial or triathlon setup and not looking to also use it as an everyday road wheel.