Berd HAWK27 Carbon Wheels

I've been on these wheels for 10 months and I've really enjoyed them. The wheels are incredibly smooth. I think the shallow rims + Berd spokes are to thank for that. The extra material on the rim where the tire bead interfaces is smart. I haven't had a pinch flat yet despite lower than average tire pressures. Rim construction puts it squarely in the downcountry category and I ride ride them as such. Sending drops, jumps, and pumping through compressions (often with rock armoring here in NW Arkansas) and they've been flawless. I'll be riding these for many years to come!

Yep these things cost quite a bit, but they do deliver on performance per dollar. Everything is unbelievably light. Definitely a difference in vibration damping through the front fork (I have a short travel bike).

Would recommend if you're looking to lighten things up, and a lifetime crash warranty is hard to beat!

Put a set of these on my new Commencal Tempo. I’m running a new Forecaster on the front and Recon on the back. Rim width is perfect. I went for these for the weight as I wanted a “light” trail bike. The bike landed at 27lb which was great for me. I’ve ridden this bike on trails that I should have been on my enduro bike with no issues. The wheels are stiff in the chunk and more importantly around fast berms. Yet they take out the high frequency vibrations. I have the best from I9 and Nobl on other bikes, but these are my favorite. I would buy them again.

I have a 2022 Ibis Ripley AF and I rode the Hawk 27 3x over the weekend: Fri/Sat/Sun, and on my first ride, I wasn’t sure what was happening on the climb. For some odd reason, I had climbing traction up my local trail which had 27-29% loose gravel climb for 1/8 of a mile. Usually on my ENVE M630, I would find the smoothest line because I don’t have any traction in the rear wheel. The traction I get from the Hawk27 is like having low pressure 27.5x2.8 size tires but yet it feels lighter, easy to spin and keep momentum like I was on 27.5 wheels! I was in disbelief that I had to take it to some wet trails sprinkled with roots and rocks the following day, and what do you know? The confidence level climbing wet tech stuff was just high because it had the climbing traction like my low pressure 2.8 size tires! This I didn’t expect.

This bike has a very bouncy rear end that I thought of switching my FOX DPS shock to a FOX Float X, but not anymore after using this Hawk 27. The rear end just feels very compliant, damped and supple when going over highspeed chattery stuff such as golf to tennis ball size rocks. The rear end just stays planted like and not bouncy anymore. The bike stays composed and I never felt the 27mm was “too narrow” for my 2.4 size Maxxis Rekon/Dissector. It was perfect! This is such a great product added in the MTB world! Thank you BERD Spokes!!

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