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Zipp Wheels - RA Cycles

Zipp Wheels

Zipp was founded in 1988 by Leigh Sargent — a motorsports engineer who spent his career making Indy 500 cars faster and saw no reason that aerodynamic thinking couldn't apply to bicycle wheels. The company's facility in Speedway, Indiana sits steps from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and the motorsports mindset never left: Zipp pioneered wind tunnel testing in cycling, introduced the Firecrest rim profile in 2010, and launched the NSW line in 2016 with HyperFoil nodes modeled on humpback whale fins. At RA Cycles, the collection covers the full Zipp road and gravel lineup — the 858 NSW and 454 NSW at the flagship end, the 808 Firecrest and 303 SW for road, the 303 XPLR and 101 XPLR for gravel, and the Super-9 for track. Individual wheels and complete wheelsets from $450 to $4,600.

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About Zipp

Leigh Sargent founded Zipp in 1988 in Indianapolis, bringing motorsports wind-tunnel thinking to bicycle wheels before the cycling industry was doing it. The company’s facility in Speedway, Indiana sits steps from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway — the brand’s origins are impossible to miss. The Firecrest rim profile (2010) proved faster and more stable in crosswinds and reshaped how rims are built across the industry. The NSW line (2016) added HyperFoil nodes — sawtooth shapes modeled on humpback whale fins — to further reduce turbulent drag at speed. Fabian Cancellara won Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders in 2010 on Zipp 303s, the first carbon wheel victories in the cobbled classics. Zipp has been part of SRAM since 2007. Learn more at Zipp’s official website.

The RA Cycles Zipp collection covers road, gravel, and track. The NSW series — 858, 454, 353, 404, 303, and 202 — represents Zipp’s most advanced technology, with complete wheelsets from $2,200 to $4,600. The 808 Firecrest and 303 Firecrest deliver Firecrest performance at a lower price point. For gravel, the 303 XPLR and 101 XPLR cover both 700c and 650b in standard and SW (wide) builds. The Super-9 disc is Zipp’s track wheel. Individual front and rear wheels are available across most models for riders replacing a single wheel or building a custom pairing.

Pair Zipp wheels with the rest of the Zipp cockpit and accessories lineup at RA Cycles, or browse the full wheel selection across road, triathlon, and gravel.

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R&A Cycles - 50th Anniversary

50 YEARS AND COUNTING

From a Brooklyn storefront to flagships in Walnut Creek and Miami, from handwritten mail orders to a fully digital custom bike builder — RA Cycles has spent half a century doing one thing: serving riders who demand the best. That half-century belongs as much to you as it does to us. The riders who kept coming back, who sent their friends, who trusted us with bikes that matter — you're the reason we're still here. Here's to the next fifty.

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