Walker Brothers WideBoy 58mm wheels review

We've tested these wide, deep section carbon clincher wheels from UK brand Walker Brothers. How do they fare against the competition in the carbon clincher battlefield?

Cycling Weekly Verdict

The Walker Brothers WideBoy 58mm wheels are Excellent deep section wheels with good braking and stability and very wide rim bed

Reasons to buy
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    Smooth rim-tyre interface

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    High tyre volume

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    Excellent braking

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    Good in crosswinds

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Reasons to avoid
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    No skewers

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    White lettering may look tatty over time

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We’ve been impressed with Walker Brothers’s wheels when we’ve reviewed them in the past. Now we have these Walker Brothers WideBoy 58mm wheels in for test. Not only are they deep, but they’re also wide with a 28mm outside cross-section to the rims and a 21mm internal width. This lends a very wide stance to 25mm tyres, giving a high air volume and also a very clean interface between the tyres and the rim, to reduce turbulence and improve airflow.

Walker Brothers says that the WideBoy range is designed for road bikes more than time trial bikes, where there may be clearance issues, so you need to check that your frame and brakes can cope with such a wide rim.

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Paul Norman

Paul started writing for Cycling Weekly in 2015, covering cycling tech, new bikes and product testing. Since then, he’s reviewed hundreds of bikes and thousands of other pieces of cycling equipment for the magazine and the Cycling Weekly website.

He’s been cycling for a lot longer than that though and his travels by bike have taken him all around Europe and to California. He’s been riding gravel since before gravel bikes existed too, riding a cyclocross bike through the Chilterns and along the South Downs.