Race Face Turbine 30 Super Boost 29in 6b Wheel Rear, 12x157mm, XD

"What Our Gearhead® Experts Are Saying:""The Turbine is the wheel I'd put on a bike that actually gets ridden. The Vault hub has 3-degree engagement, which is quick enough that you're not losing power on punchy climbs, and the labyrinth seals hold up in the kind of mud and rain that kills cheaper hubs. Anvil Edge rim technology gives the sidewall more surface area to absorb a pinch flat without tearing, so you're not walking out of the woods because of one bad line.""The rear wheel is where the abuse concentrates. Every hard landing, every root strike, every pinch flat attempt lands on the back end first, and the Race Face Turbine is built to answer all of it. The asymmetric rim profile puts more compliance where you need comfort and more strength where you need to send it, without compromising the responsiveness that makes a wheel feel alive under you. The Vault hub runs a 3-degree engagement that picks up power immediately out of corners and off the lip of a jump. Labyrinth seals keep mud and moisture out of the internals, and Anvil Edge technology spreads the impact of a pinch flat across a wider rim surface so a bad line stays a bad line instead of becoming a ruined tire."

Price: $494.99 from Backcountry