What is a Loopwheel?
A Loopwheel is a wheel with integral suspension, designed to reduce vibration and increase performance and provide greater comfort.
Loopwheels give you a smoother ride. They are more comfortable than standard wheels: the carbon springs absorb tiring vibration, as well as bumps and shocks. They’re designed for everyday use and are strong and durable. They don’t run as true as a spoked wheel but they’re a lot more comfortable.
Loopwheels for wheelchairs help you push over uneven streets, rough tracks and gravel paths more easily, and the carbon springs can give you extra power to get up or down kerbs. They reduce jolting and vibration, by as much as two thirds compared with a spoked wheel. Some customers tell us this helps them manage discomfort.
How does the Loopwheel technology work?
Loopwheel springs are made from a carbon composite material, carefully developed and tested to give optimum compression and lateral stability as well as strength and durability. Specially-designed connectors attach the springs to the hub and rim.
The three loops in each wheel work together as a self-correcting system. This spring system between the hub and the rim of the wheel provides suspension that constantly adjusts to uneven terrain, cushioning the rider from bumps and potholes in the road. In effect, the hub floats within the rim, adjusting constantly as shocks from an uneven road hit the rim of the wheel.
The spring configuration allows the torque to be transferred smoothly between the hub and the rim.
Which spring rate is right for me?
Choosing Your Spring Rate - The springs use hi-tech carbon composite materials and are available in 3 spring strengths (Soft, Regular and Stiff). These rates allow you to get the best comfort for your weight and the typical activities that you undertake.
LOOPWHEELS ARE NOT JUST A WHEEL, THEY'RE A SUSPENSION SYSTEM!
The Revolutionary Loopwheels
The carbon springs give you extra power to get up or down kerbs/curbs. They’re wonderfully comfortable over cobblestones. Potholes needn’t be a problem any more!
Loopwheels are more comfortable than standard wheelchair wheels. They absorb tiring vibration, as well as bumps and shocks.
Specifications
| Wheel Size: | 24" (540 mm) and 25" (559mm) |
| ETRTO/Tyre Size: | 25 - 540 (24 x 1.00) and 25-559 (25 x 1.00) |
| Axle Bearing: | 1/2" (12.7mm) and 12mm |
| Hub: | Machined, black/blue/red/purple anodised aluminium |
| Spring/Loop Materials: | Ultra lightweight carbon fibre |
| Logo Colour: | White reflective logos |
| Push Rim: | Various options available |
| Push Rim Offset: | Choose between narrow (11mm) or wide (19mm) |
| Rim: | Double-walled aluminium, black |
| Inner Rim Width: | 16mm |
| Bearing Width at faces: | 1.8" (45.8mm) |
| Wheel Weight: | 24" 1.36kg (2.99lb) |
| Minimum User Weight: | 35kg |
| Maximum Load: | 120kg (User and chair) |
| Maximum Speed: | 25 km/h |
| Spring Rate: | Soft, Regular or Stiff |
Features
- An everyday suspension wheel offering supreme comfort and vibration protection
- Designed for powered use up to 25 km/h and great for manual too
- The perfect all round wheel for using in town or on rougher tracks
- Easy to lift with one hand Use with or without a power attachment
- Available in both 24" and 25" sizes: 25-540 and 25-559
Shipping & Returns
Here at Spokz our emphasis is on value for money and customer service. We now offer free tracked Express UK delivery with DHL on orders of over £50 to mainland UK. Any orders under £50 will be charged £6.25 for our DHL next day service or for smaller items you can choose £2.50 Royal Mail 48 Tracked which is a 2 working day service (not guaranteed).
All pre-order items are delivered free of charge to any destination apart from international orders.
Find our more about our delivery & returnsLoopwheels Urban - Wheelchair Suspension Wheels (pair)
Go Comfortable, Go Anywhere
Loopwheels have developed a wheel with suspension that works at the higher speeds of a handbike or power attachment, for everyday use, whatever the surface.
Weighing 2.87lb (1.36kg) per wheel (without push rim or tyre), and removing much more vibration than any other brand of a wheel, it is the only wheel you’ll need to conquer the urban jungle – or indeed, anywhere you choose to roll..
Choosing Your Spring Rate - The springs use hi-tech carbon composite materials and are available in 3 spring strengths (Soft, Regular and Stiff). These rates allow you to get the best comfort for your weight and the typical activities that you undertake.
Now available with anodised metallic coloured hubs and rim hinges.
NOT RECOMMENDED FOR USE WITH SOLID TYRES
PRE-ORDER ITEM - Due to the large number of options available, this product is made to order. From build to delivery is usually 3-4 weeks. We will notify you once the product/s are ready to ship. Express shipping is not available for this item.
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Loopwheels - The most expensive but most transformative option you can choose!How can anyone justify spending as much as a wheelchair on a pair wheels? I then asked myself just how much of a difference can they make and is the high cost justifiable? That was 10 years ago and 2 pairs later. My first pair (the original) are still in use almost everyday and are still my go to option unless I’m going to the totally flat/smooth shopping centre. They take out the spine jarring bumps that you feel like a kick in the back that travel up to your neck and cause you to wince. Everything from cobbles to curb drops/climbs, tiny potholes and large stones are smoothed out meaning going out for day was finally possible without increasing my meds and needing a day or two of recovery. The difference they continue to make reminds me just how much they have been worth it. Without them my life would be so different as I couldn’t go out and live the active lifestyle I now have. So why spend twice the original amount on the newer Loopwheels? Thanks to Loopwheels my lifestyle has progressively become more active and I wanted a new set for my other ‘sport’ wheelchair. They feel tighter (more responsive) with less sideways movement/slack and going up and down curbs feels even smoother. Maybe because they are better by design or maybe because they are not ten years old with thousands of miles on them. If you’ve made the change from standard push rims to aftermarket ones like geckos, surge or curve then wondered why you waited so long to do it because of the difference they made then you will more than likely feel the same after purchasing these. If these words don’t convince you and you’re still on the fence you can now try before you buy. At time of writing I’m averaging 120miles a month on my new Loopwheels with no fatigue from back ache other than the pushing. I’ve been through parks with loose gravel and bumpy trails, going up and down kerbs and small flights of stairs and many coastal paths with rough pathing that would ordinarily have your teeth chattering or otherwise be totally impassable. All of this has been done under my own steam and not with a powered attachment so I cannot speak to that experience. I have never regretted spending so much money on ‘just a set of wheels’. I’ve had thousands of miles use out of my original Loopwheels and continue to use them hard. I’ve no doubt whatsoever that my new ones will be just as awesome as the original. Now all I need is for them to make a caster wheel version of some sort and my setup would be perfect.