We received this e-mail yesterday!
A big thank you to all at Halo Rims for the Quality And workmanship that produced the desired result at “cadwell Park Gravity Festival” Yesterday.
Let me explain……We are the Wheel Nuts Soapbox Racing Team. A 2 man team of Tool room Engineers that enjoy a challenge. We raced at various events last year including Cadwell 07 and the Eastbourne word cup and wanted to progress this year to a more serious entry, so we started planning the building our MK2 soapbox late in 07. One of the Key factors of soap boxing is the quality of the wheels and the general consensus of opinion seems to be to use BMX wheel because of there strength in to side load situation. We wanted to be different and decided to use mountain bike wheels because of the reduced rotations and their ability to travel over the imperfections of the track. This idea seamed to be frowned upon by the seasoned soap boxer as there’s “no way a big wheel will stand that side load under cornering”. We were not deterred! After much research one name kept popping up, “HALO” so we dually order 4 Halo Combat rims and designed our “buggy” around them.
The day dawned (yesterday) at Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire and yet again we had the comments “they will not stand the corners”, we were not put off!!!
After 6 runs on a very cold wind swept race track the doubters were silenced!!!!!!!!!!!
We finished second, only to the Honda Formula 1 Team in their carbonfiber ultra high Tec “soapbox” What a result!!!!!!!!!
The rims performed immaculately! They stood up to those unusual side load without a flinch, they took the abuse that all said they would not, we salute you!!!!!!!
Once again I thank you for this excellent result from 2 guys in a £400.00 Wheelie bin (yes look closely) against 25 teams including some big names.
Please find photos attached
Thanks Barry.
How cool is that?
