 They're beautiful, I love them. I brought in nine, seven or eight pairs of wheels over the last three months and you keep saying, when are you bringing back in the creatives? Because you like them so much. Why do you like them so much? Predominantly the hubs. Okay, so before Aaron continues, I want you to know upfront that the speed test that I have completed on these, creative 45 millimeter hook rims with extra light hubs valued at 2,649 AUD or just over 1,800 USD are by far the most compelling speed test I have ever completed on the same four segments I typically do on a low wind day. So compelling that I don't really want to take these creative wheels off the BMC anytime soon. External to one issue for me anyway that I'm going to share with you during this video and I just want to say upfront as well that while these guys are an Aussie based company, they have set up a supply chain to serve as an international market. So if you're interested in these wheels after this video there will be a non-affiliate link below but like most other wheels you've seen on this channel in recent times these wheels were provided to me for free but creative aren't paying me in money for this review. Back to Aaron. So we've got the Cyberlight made by Extra Light Hubs or Extra Light, sorry. Are you in bed with Extra Light? No, I like them a lot. No, it's a premium product, Hamman Italy. Everything you've brought me so far is either a Chinese hub or DT Swiss. DT Swiss obviously is not and that's still a premium hub set but you didn't bring me in the top of the range DT Swiss. Anyone who's into wheels or their wanky bike parts they're gonna know about Extra Light. Both stems, hubs, everything, they do everything. They do so many parts, they are just super high quality. Yeah, I mean I like the rims. The wheels seem like really good quality. Obviously they get built in Melbourne so their rims are produced in Asia. They get handmade in Melbourne. They're using Sappham CX-ray spokes. They're using options of, I think you have different hub options, don't you? Yeah, they do. From those guys. But they've just obviously sent you, come to the crime. Extra Light do four, I think it's four or five, no, four different hub bearing options as well. So you can go from absolute ultra high-end ceramic, a lower level ceramic, a steel bearing and then an AVEC five bearing as well. So they do four bearing options. Is that the lowest level? This is the lowest level one that I can see at the moment which is ridiculous. They have micro, micro adjustment on the hub. They get set up from the factory in Italy so they are perfect at the box. 100% Italian made. The bearings won't be Italian made. Like the CNCing on them is beautiful if you look at them obviously. So yeah, when we see stuff day in, day out it's something nice to look at. So with Extra Light they actually have a lot of information on their website for people to do their own servicing et cetera on them. You can do micro adjustments. They do have service interval requirements as well. If you're in very, very wet weather, if you're in Europe or if you're in Melbourne or Tassie and all that kind of stuff and you've got a lot of rain, a lot of water, you should be servicing like every three months. So you strip the hub down, you make sure everything's nice and greased, put it all back together again. Normal dry weather I think is like six to 10 months or something they recommend for normal servicing which is probably a lot more than anyone would ever do on their normal hubs. But if you take care of them they're gonna last you a long time because they are expensive, right? And then if you leave them dormant for a while, if you don't use your bicycle or when you go on holiday for a couple of months, they suggest a full strip down as well. You can even ride it. Yeah, so you can read about all that stuff. So for me, as somebody who doesn't like to get their hands dirty and also for somebody that tends to leave carbon wheels sitting around in their office for weeks, if not months on end, the sensitivity of the hubs does cause a little bit of an issue for me anyway. So I guess the question is, would I be willing to deal with that sensitivity in return for what appears to be a lot more speed? You see, I've been doing these four speed tests for just over two years now and the last 16 months closely monitoring wind conditions. So if we need to, we can go back in history and look at the previous results. Now I'm fully aware you can pull apart my speed tests if you want to and I'll provide details on how I try and keep things as consistent as possible below, but for me, given possible anomalies what I tend to do is look for any consistencies as I like to do speed runs at least a couple of times which was a recommendation from you, the audience. Quite a long time ago now and if it's consistently faster with decent margins then I feel like we've got something decent to look at and looking at these recent results on the BMC team machine with the Creative 45s with Vittoria Corsa Graphene 2.0 25 millimeter tires comparing to all other speed tests I've done since monitoring wind conditions. Yes, not all the same bike, tire and wheel combinations but surprisingly this combination has been easily the fastest up the Gindia Climb which I did expect given the weight of the wheels at 1,250 grams but surprisingly easily the fastest on the false flat incline and decline which I did not expect and sort of middle ground for the decline. So in other words the Creative 45s have cleaned up on three out of four segments. Now for notable reference with these previous speed runs I did some runs on the BMC team machine with the exact same tires on the KPS 60 millimeter wheels and another BMC team machine run on the Cayden Decadence 45 millimeter wheel so the same rim profile although the tires I used with the Cayden runs with the Vittoria Corsa Control Graphene 28 millimeters. I'll link to that speed test data below if you wanna check it out for yourselves and just know that the creatives are compatible with a 28 millimeter tire. I'm running 25s purely on the basis that the BMC team machine back end is already soft slash comfortable enough and I find a 28 millimeter tire is just too much for that particular bike. Now given these results, these speed test results I doubt that the creatives are gonna be spending too much time off my bike now and I feel that that speed production, a major factor in that is coming from the hubs which Aaron's gonna deep dive into now. It's a pretty simple system. I mean, I'm not gonna get punchies out because they are so smooth and perfect so I kinda wanna leave them alone. Same as ever, dust cap, I have not touched these but as you see from the factory, I haven't done that. So from the factory they are greased. Same as the other hubs, they have a sleeve that runs through the bearing. Pretty obvious there. On the other side, you see this beautiful CNC. We've got a micro adjuster here. That tiny adjuster, you see how sensitive this is? I mean, it's ridiculous. That micro adjuster will just preload the hub bearing and it is very, very sensitive. So you need to have refined movements on it. Take, it's delicate, right? Delicate for its adjustment but then when you're riding you still have to set and forget. And since you brought them in from your first few rides, perfect. I wouldn't even true them. Nice and stiff. I'm looking forward to seeing how your speed tests go because I think they're gonna rip. And then the rear hub is ridiculously easy, smooth. You can just see everything just moves where they can put your little pinkie finger. It is effortless. So we've got pretty much an open bearing there. Well, it's got a dust seal on the bearing but there's none of that big rubber sealing, nothing to restrict it. I've already just slightly loosened this off so you can see what's going on. So we just pull this apart. So these run two 17 mil spanners to open up the hub. You down or adjust the micro adjuster because it's set from the factory unless you have any kind of end float which we've discussed before. But the cap comes off. And then with this free hub, this is a little bit different again. You'll see how cool it is. This runs an O-ring. This little O-ring here is your little seal as well but it just holds everything in place. That's how lightweight it is. Now don't forget these are ultra lightweight hubs. So this is I think 146 grams for the whole hub. Which is like for a rehab. The front hub's 66 grams. Just if you take an SV15 tube like that, a long 60 mil valve. I think it comes out at 100 grams. There's 106 grams in this case. There you go. They're free hub body. Pools, springs, O-rings and two bearing. And that way, 40 grams. Oh my goodness. Older DT Swiss specialized. Yep. 65 grams. So it's still a premium free hub body but it just goes to show crazy. 40 grams over the top. So internally, yeah, these are all running enduro bearings. These are an ABEC 5 style bearing. And as I said to you, they are a finesse hub so there's a warning sticker there. As it says, strictly follow instruction manual, incorrect greasing can cause hub failure. And that goes along the lines what we just did prior with the Kogel bearings was that if you're using heavy-visuality grease, it creates dramas with free hub body bearings. In this case, it will actually affect the way in which the hub works and therefore it would damage the hub. Let's have a finer, finer these are. So they're beautiful. I love them. I said for an everyday use, possibly not what everybody would want. A normal kind of client. But I think anyone who wants premium stuff, you're just gonna know there's a difference. There's a lot of nice hub manufacturers out there. This is not the one and only but it's just, this is the nicest one of the lot that you've brought me. Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay. Cause DT Swiss make a very nice hub as well. But this is just next level in my opinion. Rear ones the same, no truing required, sat perfectly and that's probably because they've been handmade by someone in Melbourne and they've done everything that I've kind of spoken about. They would have followed all those same protocols and therefore its end result is a perfectly made wheel. That's what you get when they're handmade. You can still have handmade in Asia or wherever but if they're mass produced handmade, they're still gonna be speeding them out of there. Whereas these guys, I'm guessing, take a lot of pride and attention into detail. This is what you're paying for.