We meet up with Nico and Stephan from South Industries at the Standard Bank Africa Cycle Fair. These two guys are designing and making carbon rims in Cape Town. We sat them down to find out more about their new enterprise.
Check out the South Industries website here.
Oct 23, 2015, 1:17 PM
Oct 23, 2015, 1:18 PM
HANDGEMAAK !!!! YEEEEHAAAAAA
EK SMAAK
Oct 23, 2015, 1:19 PM
LOCAL IS LEKKE JA
Oct 23, 2015, 1:22 PM
may you guys do exceptionally well from here on forward
Oct 23, 2015, 1:25 PM
Good luck with the future, now go make us some road hoops please.
Oct 23, 2015, 1:29 PM
Very good to see!
Oct 23, 2015, 1:36 PM
Fantastic! Great to see. I do wish I was there at the Fair to feel a pair of these rims in my hands.
Oct 23, 2015, 1:52 PM
outside of my price bracket, but wish them well with the venture!!
Oct 23, 2015, 1:52 PM
awesome stuff, i think with a more reasonable set of Hubs and then were talking.
Oct 23, 2015, 1:57 PM
Wait, what is the price of these wheels? Surely local should be cheaper with the bad Rand? Or not?
Oct 23, 2015, 2:03 PM
No Rim Only option...?
Oct 23, 2015, 2:03 PM
R6350 a rim
then 20k made up with tune hub
and 21500 with an i9 hub
Oct 23, 2015, 2:06 PM
R6350 a rim
then 20k made up with ( aaggg cant remeber hub )
and 29K with an i9 hub
Ouch local is lekker but not cheap.
Oct 23, 2015, 2:07 PM
Ouch local is lekker but not cheap.
hmmm ya when you can get a set of Pyga Trailwide carbons with traillite hubs for 14500
Oct 23, 2015, 2:13 PM
Oct 23, 2015, 2:17 PM
yep there are many options out there
Oct 23, 2015, 2:22 PM
going to the fair to check them out
Oct 23, 2015, 2:23 PM
hmmm ya when you can get a set of Pyga Trailwide carbons with traillite hubs for 14500
you can also get a mass produced steel from overseas and a hand produced steel frame from a local builder .... the local guy is going to be a little more expensive, but you get craftmanship
Oct 23, 2015, 2:25 PM
Wait, what is the price of these wheels? Surely local should be cheaper with the bad Rand? Or not?
Where does the material come from? Not here, that's for sure...
Oct 23, 2015, 2:31 PM
I was going to say exactly what Hairy said.... Steel Momsen St-R for 3k or a hand built (handgemaak) piece of art from a Local builder....
The little bit of hipster in everyone wants some type of boutiquey xen craft hand made whatever to match their ear wax twizzled moustache.
Oct 23, 2015, 3:45 PM
I have held these rims and inspected thoroughly. They are far better built than the pyga wheels. The rims are enve league.
They're stiffer laterally than almost any other similar carbon rim whilst retaining vertical compliance.
If I had R22k I spend it on the south industries with Chris king hubs. No contest
Oct 23, 2015, 3:53 PM
I brought myself in a set of these a few months ago.
Cost me less than 6K for 2 rims.Just putting it out there.
Are you seriously telling me from holding the rims in your hands you can already tell they are enve quality?
Oct 23, 2015, 4:45 PM
they look really nice, but cant seem to wrap my head around wheels that cost about the same as my current MTB bike.
Oct 23, 2015, 6:24 PM
Okes comparing these to pyga rims. Please.
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I love it !!!!!
We need more guys like this