Campagnolo Electron wheels

Shiny, featherweight factory goodness, designed for pure climbers

- Kevin Raymond

Campagnolo had enjoyed huge success with its deep-section profiled aluminium wheels in the early to mid-Nineties, but they did carry a weight penalty compared with conventional rims and they could also be a bit twitchy in windy conditions. So for 1998, alongside lighter versions of the existing Shamal, Vento and Scirocco V-section wheels, and a new aluminium/ carbon deep-section wheelset called the Bora (Campagnolo liked to name its aero wheels after strong winds, as you may have guessed), it introduced two new, lightweight ‘Climb-Dynamic’ wheelsets – Electron and Proton – which combined the featherweight, smooth and reliable hubs from the Shamal range with low-profile, super-light, hard-anodised aluminium rims.