our approach
We use our Performance is a System approach to develop our wheelsets.
DESIGN
At Partington we design and develop our wheelsets at our factory in Geelong, Australia.
DEVELOP
We use CAD and CFD modeling to evolve our design through through thousands of iterations.
TEST
We partner with Australian Centre for Sports Aerodynamics (ACSA) Wind Tunnel.
SETTING THE CONTEXT
The cycling industry has spent decades optimizing individual components.
Lighter rims, stiffer hubs, more aerodynamic rim profiles, lower-friction bearings.
Each advancement is isolated. Each specification is independent.
When you then attempt to engineer these individual elements, developed in isolation, into a wheelset by selecting the fastest rim, the lightest spokes, and the stiffest hub, and assembling them, the result is not optimal performance; it is a product of compromises.
This approach ultimately limits the product's performance potential.
We do not follow this approach.
In fact, we invert it.
Performance is a System is not a marketing statement.
It is a fundamental approach to developing a wheelset without trade-offs or compromise.
It is the way we have developed our wheels since 2018.
PERFORMANCE IS A SYSTEM
At Partington, we seek to invert this approach.
Using our Performance is a System framework, we design, develop, test, and assemble all components of our wheelsets to work together to deliver performance on every ride.
This framework is not new to us.
It has been the way we have developed all of our wheelsets since our inception in 2018.
But it is what sets us apart from others.
It is based on the simple premise of collaborating to deliver performance.
Our Engineering and Product teams work together, led by our founder, Jon Partington, to ensure that all the components we design and develop are optimized to perform as a complete system.
This approach delivers an unparalleled ride experience.
DESIGN
Our journey to our latest wheelset began with understanding the problem that needed to be solved.
Our approach was intentional.
We do not seek to follow the pack.
We listened, observed, and sought insights from our network of riders, customers, retailers, and distributors to fully understand what needed to be developed.
Our objective was not to develop another wheelset.
It was to develop a better wheelset that had the potential to deliver the next generation of performance.
DEVELOP
Based on our understanding of the problem that needed to be solved, we developed a series of integrated performance targets.
These targets set the parameters of what we were looking to achieve with a new wheelset.
Using these data points, we developed the system requirements to inform component specifications, spoke architectures to define rim layup, and hub stiffness to inform bearing preload tolerances, and so forth.
Every element is designed and developed to work together to deliver seamless performance in every wheel rotation and every pedal stroke.
What then followed was further CAD design work and then CFD analysis to evaluate potential performance.
TESTING
We then took our initial ideas to the Wind Tunnel, testing our prototype wheelsets to determine what could be validated, what could be evolved, and what could be further optimized.
Did the components work together as expected?
Did we achieve our aero targets?
It is an honest approach, and one that cannot hide from the truth.
What we arrived at was our new wheelset.
Welcome to Partington R-Series.
Learn more about our new Partington R-Series wheelsets
Australian-designed, developed, tested, and assembled. The next chapter in the Partington story.