EA90 SL Wheel

SKU: 8022138

Sale price $374.99

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Front or Rear

Front

Rear

Type

Clincher

We've upgraded our venerable EA90 SL wheels, dropping weight and increasing strength. Now, for the first time, Easton is making a tubeless ready wheelset. This allows for durable Sapim straight-pull spokes with standard nipples, enhancing durability and reducing the need for proprietary parts. A completely redesigned rim features a category-leading 19.5mm internal rim in a deeper and stiffer 27mm blunt shaped rim that borrows from our aerodynamic Fantom shape. Finally, these battle-tested wheels are centered on our award-winning Echo hubs. This wheelset is completely hand-built and acoustically tuned using Easton's painstaking wheel building methods.

Specs

WHEELSET WEIGHT: 1490g
FINISH: BLACK ANODIZE / WATER TRANSFER GRAPHICS
TYPE: TUBELESS CLINCHER
RIM MATERIAL: EA90 ALUMINUM WELDED
RIM DEPTH: 27mm
INTERNAL RIM WIDTH: 19.5mm
EXTERNAL RIM WIDTH: 24.5mm
SPOKES: SAPIM STRAIGHT-PULL / DOUBLE-BUTTED BLACK
FRONT SPOKE PATTERN: 20 / RADIAL
REAR SPOKE PATTERN: 24 / 1x NDS / 2x DS
BRAKING SURFACE: MACHINED ALUMINUM
NIPPLE TYPE: ALUMINUM
FRONT/REAR HUB: EASTON ECHO
BEARING TYPE: SEALED CARTRIDGE BEARINGS

Features

Manuals

Rim Pressure Guide

Shipping & Returns

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Returns & Exchanges

30 Day Returns
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The EA90 SL alloy welded rims feature Fantom rim profiling and are tubeless-ready, paired with the Echo hubset and Sapim straight pull spokes. Handbuilt and tuned for optimal performance, these wheels may incur oversize shipping fees.

Bombproof After 6 Years

I bought these around 2017 in North Vancouver at Steed Cycles, primarily for cyclocross racing. They've been raced hard each year since, and used extensively for training and long gravel rides. After all this time, I've never broken a spoke, and had them trued maybe 2 times. I've never needed to get the hubs serviced as each year I open them up I see fresh grease which means water has never got in. I've only got one flat spot on the rear rim, due to a race where I lost all pressure in the back tire and still raced for over 30 minutes on rough terrain. What more could you ask for out of a set of rims? Highly recommended and I would not hesitate to buy these again if needed.

EA90 SLX rim broke

After 3 years my rear rim broke, after 4 years then the replacement broke, too.
The front rim is still good.

EA90 SLX rear rim broke (again)

After 3 years (out of warranty) my rear rim broke, the replacement rim broke no 4 years later, first front rim is still good.

EA90 SLX rim broke (again)

After 3 years my rear rim broke and I bought a new one, which broke now after 4 years. First front rim is still good, I know: outside the warranty ...

Cracks developed in the rim

In the fall of 2019, I bought a pair of Easton EA90 SL wheels and put them on my Specialized Roubaix. In the summer of 2021, the rear wheel developed cracks in several spots, where the nipples met the rim. Easton honored the warranty and sent me a replacement wheel. After 14 months of riding with the new wheel, the same thing happened!: cracks at the nipples in the rear wheel. This caused a wobble that couldn’t be fixed and is a safety concern. Rather than seek a replacement wheel from Easton, I bought a wheelset from a different manufacturer.

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