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Campagnolo red mineral oil.
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Absolutely not! We worked hard to spread our compatibility. You can find all the brands that subscribed our licence and are happily offering the N3W freehub as a standard in their wheel range here (bottom of the page, the list is constantly updated).
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No, the existing wheels won't be directly equipped with N3W. They will be kept the same until the end of their life cycle and then replaced by new models N3W native. The main reason is that they were not developed as gravel specific products so we are not going to push their use with EKAR. We are riders though and we do understand the need of every consumer to save what they have already purchased and use it with a new drivetrain and the wish to switch the wheels between one bike and the other. That's why we created the conversion kits and the adapter.
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No, the conversion kits AC21-N3WRFCC and AC21-N3WRFCS do not include the adapter AC21-N3W, and are provided only for fitting the N3W body on wheels designed prior to the 2021 range.

Any current wheel you want to convert to N3W, if you want to use it either with sprocket cassettes with the first sprocket with 9/10 teeth (such as Ekar or Super Record wireless) and/or any sprocket cassettes for previous drivetrains with the first sprocket with 11/12 teeth, you will have to order the adapter AC21-N3W.

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You can find all the instructions at the following links: Retrofit Kit
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All our existing disc brake wheels can be converted to N3W to make them compatible with 9 and 10 sprocket start (like our EKAR cassettes). Having a smaller ratchet diameter compared to the new generation wheels (30 mm vs 33 mm), these wheels need a kit (axle + endcaps + N3W freehub with smaller pawls diameter FH-N3WA30) to be converted: • AC21-N3WRFCC for cup-cone (ZONDA DB, BORA WTO family DB, BORA ONE family DB, SHAMAL ULTRA DB) • AC21-N3WRFCS for sealed bearings (SCIROCCO DB) ATTENTION: the only standard compatible with N3W is 12 x 142 mm. QR 135 and 10 mm axle are not convertible!
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The AC21-N3W adapter will be already present in all the wheels that we introduce as road or all-rounder (endurance category), like SHAMAL CARBON, since they can be used both with drivetrains involving cassettes with 9 and 10 sprocket start, like Ekar (without the adapter), and with drivetrains involving cassettes with 11 and 12 sprocket start (with the adapter).
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The AC21-N3W adapter package contains: • the adapter - a metal ring for length extension • the Z11 lockring - a longer lockring compared to the standard one that comes with the cassettes since it has to reach a deeper thread on the freehub after the ring installation. Lockrings that come with 10, 11 and 12 speed cassettes do not work when these cassettes are installed on N3W freehub + adapter as they won't SAFELY reach the internal thread of the freehub. Hence, the full adapter kit comes ready to fit all our cassettes starting with 11 sprocket (11, 12 and also 10 speed). For those wanting to assemble a cassette starting with 12 sprocket we have a specific lockring available as spare part
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N3W has been designed to host directly Campagnolo cassettes starting with 9 and 10 sprocket. To use Campagnolo cassettes starting with 11 or 12 sprocket you must install the AC21-N3W adapter on the N3W freehub first.
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All our new wheels, starting from SHAMAL CARBON DB in the 2021 range, will have the N3W body
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