Mystic company makes bike wheels for Paris Olympic athletes NBC Connecticut [Video]

Inside a tucked away manufacturing building in Mystic, staff members work meticulously to build wheels for top athletes in the world.

“These are the Ferrari of bike wheels,” President and Cofounder of Princeton CarbonWorks Harrison Macris said. 

The founders of the Princeton CarbonWorks have backgrounds in engineering and rowing. Carbon fiber is used in rowing equipment and the founders wanted to bring the materials into the cycling world.

“Our goal is to make the absolute most bleeding edge tip of the sphere parts, for the top athletes to go and set world records, win world championships, win gold medals,” Macris said. 

The wheels debuted in the Paris Olympics. Filippo Ganna won the silver medal in the men’s road time trials. Still ahead, more athletes will ride to the finish line in the Princeton CarbonWorks wheels. 

“The next time you will see them is on the men’s road race which is …