Simucube wheel compatibility: USB, Wireless Wheel, and Link Quick Release are three different routes

A Simucube wheel and a Simucube base agree on the bolt circle long before they agree on anything else. Nearly every wheel Simucube sells or blesses lands on a 70 mm pattern, so the question that decides whether your buttons, paddles, and LEDs work is not how the wheel bolts on but which of three routes its data takes: a USB cable to the PC, a low-energy radio link to a $159.00 Simucube Link Hub, or the $169.00 Link Quick Release itself, which carries data and power across the joint without touching. Simucube publishes that split as a five-column table on a page of its own, and the column your wheel sits in decides which parts you buy and which base generation it will run on.

Every price, count, quotation, and table cell below was read on Simucube’s own US store at simucube.com/en-us/, on its docs.simucube.com online guide, and on the blog and platform pages both link, on 5 August 2026, fetched with a browser user agent.

Simucube sorts wheels into five columns, and the column is a data route

The page is titled “How to choose the right steering wheel for Simucube 3”, and its opening sentence names nine manufacturers: “Steering wheel manufactures like BavarianSimTec, Ascher, GSI, Cube Controls, Delta Sim Technologies, Simucube, P1sim, SimCore, and SimRacingBay all provide wheels with different wheel technologies that work with Simucube 3.” The spelling “manufactures” is Simucube’s.

Below it sits one table, six rows deep and five columns wide. The five columns are Simucube’s own headings and the rows are its own labels. This reproduces the desktop version of that table, the one the page marks hide-for-small; the same six rows are repeated further down the page as five stacked cards for narrow screens, and the two agree cell for cell.

	Simucube Link Wheels	Simucube Wireless Wheels	Traditional USB-wheels	Button plate wheels	Upcoming Link Wheels
Data connection	Simucube Link Quick Release	Simucube Link Hub	USB-cable	Simucube Link Hub	Simucube Link Quick Release
Data connection type	Optical, contactless	Low-energy wireless	Conductive	Low-energy wireless	Optical, contactless
Power transfer	Simucube Link Quick Release	Re-chargeable or replaceable battery	USB-cable	Re-chargeable or replaceable battery	Simucube Link Quick Release
Power connection type	Inductive, contactless	Internal	Conductive	Internal	Inductive, contactless
Software	Simucube Tuner 3.0+	Simucube Tuner 3.0+	SimHub (or other 3rd party)	Simucube Tuner 3.0+	Simucube Tuner 3.0+
Availability	Simucube, BavarianSimTec, Delta Sim Technologies, P1Sim, SimCore	Ascher Racing, Cube Controls, Hybrid Racing Simulations, SimCore, SimLine, SimRacingBay, Simucube	Ascher, BavarianSimTech, GSI, & many others	Ascher, SimRacingBay, SimCore, Cube Controls, & many others	In 2026: Ascher, GSI, Cube Controls, SimRacinBay

Two of the five columns are the same route. The Wireless Wheels column and the Button plate wheels column carry identical values in all five of the rows above Availability: the hub for data, low-energy wireless for the type, a battery for power, internal for the power type, and Tuner. What separates them is what the wheel is, not how it talks. The Link Wheels column and the Upcoming Link Wheels column are identical the same way, and the second is dated: its Availability cell reads “In 2026:” over four names.

Two names in the Availability row are misspellings of names in the same row. “BavarianSimTech” sits in the USB column where “BavarianSimTec” sits in the Link column, and “SimRacinBay” sits in the Upcoming column where “SimRacingBay” sits in the Wireless and Button plate columns. Both misspellings occur twice in the page’s served bytes, once in each of the two renderings of the table, counted with grep -oF | wc -l.

The showcase below the table names nine wheels and links three of them. Under “Find your perfect wheel”, three groups repeat the three live routes with a sentence each. Link Wheels: “Link Wheels connect via Link Quick Release for Simucube 3.” over the Simucube x BavarianSimTec Delta Pro SC, the Simucube Savu Pro, and the SimuCore SSL-1. Wireless Wheels: “All Simucube Wireless Wheels are compatible with Simucube 3 via Simucube Link Hub.” over the Simucube Valo GT-23 Leather Version, the SRB GT3 V2, and the Ascher Artura Pro. USB: “You can use any of your existing USB wheels with Simucube 3.” over the Simucube x Ascher Racing Ultimate USB, the GSI x Simucube X-29, and the BavarianSimTec OmegaPRO V2. Of the nine, three carry a working link to a Simucube store listing, one carries a link that returns HTTP 404 on Simucube’s own domain (https://simucube.com/en-us/gsi-x-simucube-x-29/, checked 5 August 2026), and five carry no link at all. The Ascher wheel is named two ways on this one page, “Simucube x Ascher Ultimate USB” in the narrow-screen block and “Simucube x Ascher Racing Ultimate USB” in the wide one, at 1 and 5 occurrences respectively.

The eight parts, and what each one buys

Every part below is its own listing on Simucube’s US store, and every figure is that listing’s own JSON-LD price with "valueAddedTaxIncluded":false beside it, matching the figure printed on the page. All eight read “In stock” on 5 August 2026.

Part	US price, 5 August 2026	SKU	What Simucube sells it for
Simucube Link	$159.00	SCLINK	The hub. “Occupies only one USB port”
Link Quick Release for Simucube 3	$169.00	LINKQRWS	The wheel-side of the new coupling, 70 mm
Simucube Quick Release Wheel side Kit	$109.00	SQR-WKIT-R2	The wheel-side of the Simucube 2 coupling
Simucube 50.8 mm to 70 mm Adapter	$99.00	SC50870A	A formula rim’s smaller circle, plus 30 mm of clearance
Simucube 2 Quick Release Adapter for Simucube 3	$99.00	SC3SQR1A	Old wheels on a new base
Simucube 2 Link Quick Release Adapter	$69.00	SC2LINKA	The new coupling on an old base
Simucube 3 70 mm Adapter	$69.00	SC3WB70A	A third-party quick release on a new base
Simucube Quick Release lock pin	$19.00	SQR-PIN	The Simucube 2 coupling’s pin

The hub is the one part on that list Simucube calls required, and it is cheaper inside a box than outside one. Seven Simucube listings sell it as an option, and on every one of them the option costs exactly $100.00: the Savu Sport at $989.00 against $1,089.00, the Savu Pro at $1,299.00 against $1,399.00, the Valo GT-23 at $949.00 against $1,049.00, the Valo GT-23 Leather Version at $949.00 against $1,049.00, the Simucube 3 Sport at $1,399.00 against $1,499.00, the Simucube 3 Pro at $1,599.00 against $1,699.00, and the Simucube 3 Ultimate at $3,299.00 against $3,399.00. That is $59.00 under the $159.00 the part costs on its own, on all seven. The figures come from each listing’s own data-product_variations attribute, a JSON array read out of the served HTML and parsed, because the rendered page prints a range with the currency symbol in an element of its own and no contiguous string on it holds either price.

One hub serves a whole rig, in Simucube’s own words on two different pages. The Savu listings say “You only need one Simucube Link Hub. If you own Valo GT-23 or ActivePedal you do not need another Simucube Link Hub.” The FAQ says the same thing twice over: “You do not need two Simucube Link Hubs!” and, of a rig with more than one Link device in it, “If you have at least two ActivePedals, or one ActivePedal and a Simucube 3, you will need the ethernet switch. You will still only need one Link Hub.”

What the hub actually is, per Simucube’s developer documentation. The docs.simucube.com page for it reads: “Simucube Link Hub is a bridge device between USB and Simucube Link network. It has one USB-C port and one Simucube Link (RJ45 Ethernet) port.” The part’s name opens that page in bold, so a </strong> sits after “Hub” and the first sentence reads whole only once the tags come out. The platform page describes the same job for a shopper: “Connect your PC via USB to the Simucube Link Hub which takes the lead and switches communication to galvanically isolated Ethernet.” Its box holds three things, on its own contents list: “Simucube Link”, “USB cable”, “Quick start guide”.

What each base generation supports, and where the wheelbase-side part comes from

Simucube’s Wheelbases collection printed “Showing all 5 results” on 5 August 2026 and served five product cards: three Simucube 3 models and two Simucube 2 models. The Simucube 2 Ultimate is not among them, and the category sidebar every store page carries agrees, filing Simucube 2 against 2 and Simucube 3 against 3. The docs.simucube.com guide still documents a Simucube 2 Ultimate package list.

Base	US price, 5 August 2026	What it says about the wheel connection
Simucube 3 Sport	$1,399.00 excluding the hub, $1,499.00 including	”There is no USB passthrough. However, you may still use USB wheels as with Simucube 2.”
Simucube 3 Pro	$1,599.00 / $1,699.00	The same three FAQ answers, printed identically
Simucube 3 Ultimate	$3,299.00 / $3,399.00	The same three FAQ answers, printed identically
Simucube 2 Sport	$999.00	”Wireless Wheel Support:” against “Yes” on its own specification list
Simucube 2 Pro	$1,299.00	The same row, and dimensions given “incl. SQR”

The Simucube 3 ships with half the coupling and sells you the other half. The online guide is explicit: “All Simucube 3 wheelbases ship with the Simucube Link Quick Release wheelbase side part pre-installed.” Its Items needed page lists what you still buy, in bold, under “To get started with your Simucube 3 Wheelbase you need:”: “Simucube Link Hub (sold separately)” and “Wheelside Link Quick Release (sold separately)”. Only the first of those two is contiguous in the served bytes; the second carries a link tag between “Wheelside” and “Link”, which is why it appears on the naming table below as a wording split in two. The store listings for all three Simucube 3 bases carry a line that names neither side, rendered from three elements as a bold “Does NOT include” followed by “Link Quick Release for Simucube 3” in a span of its own and then ”, Simucube Link Hub”. The part the store sells under that name carries the SKU LINKQRWS.

The Simucube 2 ships with neither half. The Sport and Pro listings both print “Does NOT include:” over “Simucube Quick Release Side Parts”, while including a “Pin for Simucube Quick Release” in the box, and Simucube sells the missing wheel-side as a $109.00 kit of its own. The online guide’s Simucube 2 package list adds the part that makes the wireless route work on that generation: “External antenna for Simucube Wireless Wheel signal reception”, listed for the Sport and Pro and again for the Ultimate.

All three Simucube 3 listings answer the wheel question with the same three FAQ answers. On the wireless route: “Yes, all Simucube Wireless Wheels are compatible. You will need Simucube Link Hub for the data transfer, and you can continue to use USB-powered wheels. You also need to purchase the Simucube Link Quick Release.” On LightBridge: “We have developed Simucube Lightbridge, which is an elegant design specifically for sim racing technology.” On USB: the no-passthrough sentence above.

Which of Simucube’s ten wheels takes which route

Simucube’s Steering Wheels collection printed “Showing all 10 results” on 5 August 2026 and served 10 product cards, counted by parsing the collection page’s own product-title elements. This table covers those ten listings and no others, and the middle column is what each listing says on its own page rather than what the chooser page says about its class.

Listing	The route its own page names	US price
Simucube Savu Sport	”Simucube wireless wheel via Simucube Link Hub.” for data on both versions; power by Link Quick Release or by battery	$989.00
Simucube Savu Pro	The same Connectivity block, word for word	$1,299.00
Simucube Valo GT-23	The same Connectivity block, word for word	$949.00
Simucube Valo GT-23 Leather Version	The same Connectivity block, word for word	$949.00
Simucube x BavarianSimTec Delta Pro SC	”transfers power and data through our Simucube Link Quick Release”; Compatibility reads “Simucube 3” and nothing else	$1,799.00
Simucube Tahko GT-21 Wireless Wheel	”Wireless technology utilizing Simucube Wireless Wheel System”; box holds a Simucube 2 quick release and a “CR2477N Battery”	$859.00
Simucube Tahko GT-21 Black Edition	The same feature line and the same box list	$859.00
Simucube Tahko Round Black Edition	The same feature line and the same box list	$859.00
Simucube Tahko Round Orange Edition	The same feature line and the same box list	$859.00
Limited Edition GSI x Simucube Formula Pro Elite v2	A cable: GSI "Spec 3" Coiled USB Cable, over a “Simucube Wheel Side Quick Release” and a “Simucube 50mm Hub”	$1,579.00

Counted across those ten pages’ served bytes: four contain the string “Simucube Link Hub”, one contains “Simucube Link Quick Release” and not “Simucube Link Hub”, four contain “Simucube Wireless Wheel System”, and five contain “Simucube Link Quick Release” at all. The string “Simucube Link Hub” occurs zero times on all four Tahko listings, on the GSI wheel, and on the Delta Pro SC. “USB” appears on three of the ten and means two different things: on the GSI listing it is the wheel’s data cable, and on the two Savu listings it is only the charging cable for the Simucube 2 version’s battery, a box-list line reading “USB-C to USB-A cable” and then ” for charging only” in a span of its own, so no contiguous string on either page holds the whole of it.

Six of the ten name no hub, and the hub’s own page claims four of the six anyway. The Link Hub listing lists what needs it and what it works with under two headings. Under Required: “Simucube ActivePedal (included in box)” and “Simucube Valo GT-23 (not included in box)”. Under Supported: “Simucube wireless wheels (Ascher, GSI, Cube Controls, SRB) - not included in box” and “Simucube Tahko (GT-21 & Round)”. So Simucube files the Tahko under the hub on the hub’s page and never mentions the hub on any of the four Tahko pages. The other two of the six take a different route altogether, the Delta Pro SC through the Link Quick Release and the GSI wheel through a USB cable, so neither is a wireless wheel the hub would carry.

The two Savu and two Valo listings are one Connectivity block printed four times, and the difference between their two versions is power rather than data. Under “Simucube 3 compatible version of the wheel:” it reads “Data transfer:” over “Simucube wireless wheel via Simucube Link Hub.” and “Power transfer:” over a line naming the Link Quick Release; under “Simucube 2 compatible version of the wheel:” the data line repeats verbatim and the power line reads “Re-chargeable battery powered (NiMh with 2000 mAh capacity). 30-60 hours battery life depending on LED setup”, which all four listings serve as two <span data-contrast="auto"> elements split after “capacity).”, so no contiguous string on any of them holds both sentences. The same four listings carry the same Compatibility warning about the Simucube 3 version, ”• Not for Simucube 2 — this version has no battery and relies on wireless power transfer, which Simucube 2 wheelbases don’t support.”, the bullet, the dash, and the curly apostrophe being Simucube’s, and route the Simucube 2 version onto a Simucube 3 base through the $99.00 adapter.

One wheel converts between the two, and Simucube prices the conversion in a FAQ answer. The Savu listings ask “Can I convert my Simucube 2 Savu wheel into a Simucube 3 wheel?” and answer “Yes. You would need to purchase the Simucube Link Quick Release and remove the battery from your Simucube 2 Savu wheel.”

The two Tahko Round listings print the wrong wheel in their own box lists. Both the Black Edition and the Orange Edition open their contents with “Simucube Tahko GT-21 Steering Wheel”, which is the sibling product, and both carry the GT-21’s own “Simucube Quick Release for Simucube 2” and “CR2477N Battery” lines below it. All four Tahko listings are $859.00 and carry four distinct SKUs, SWTGT21-AAAA, SWTGT21-AAAB, SCTARO-BL, and SCTARO-OR; the GT-21 Black Edition was the one of the four reporting OutOfStock in its own JSON-LD that day.

Two adapters keep the mechanics and lose the electronics

The Link Quick Release moves power and data across the joint only where both ends support it. Three of Simucube’s four adapters state in their own words exactly what they take away, and the fourth states in its own words that it takes nothing. Two of the three put it in a technical bullet or a description sentence; the third puts it in a section heading, because the block under that heading is one of the two pasted from a word processor and nothing inside it is quotable whole.

Adapter	What it does	What Simucube says it costs you
Simucube 2 Quick Release Adapter for Simucube 3, $99.00	Puts the Simucube 2 coupling back on a Simucube 3 shaft	”Wireless data and power transfer via Lightbridge is not supported when using this adapter.” followed by “Data transfer via Bluetooth still works as usual.”
Simucube 2 Link Quick Release Adapter, $69.00	Puts the Link Quick Release on a Simucube 2 shaft	”Simucube 2 wheelbases do not support the new wireless data and power transfer features of Simucube Link Quick Release, but traditional Bluetooth wireless transfer works as usual.”
Simucube 3 70 mm Adapter, $69.00	Replaces Simucube’s coupling with any 70 mm third-party one	A heading of its own: “Wireless power and data transfer is not supported”. Its description adds “It replaces the original Simucube Link Quick Release interface of the wheelbase, so you can customize the connection to your preference.” and states no loss
Simucube 50.8 mm to 70 mm Adapter, $99.00	Adapts a formula rim’s 50.8 mm circle and adds 30 mm of clearance	Nothing: it “fully supports wireless data and power transfer with Simucube Link compatible wheels”

Only the last of the four keeps the wireless features, and Simucube says so three times on its page. Its own description reads “Easily attach third-party wheels to Simucube Link Quick Release with Simucube 50.8 mm to 70 mm Adapter.” and the sentence quoted above, and its marketing block heads the third statement “Supports wireless power and data transfer”, the exact mirror of the 70 mm adapter’s heading. Those two headings are the only strings quotable whole out of either word-processor block, because the sentences under both are split across dozens of spans in the served HTML. The Link Quick Release’s own technical list points at the part: “For formula style wheels with a 50.8mm bolt pattern, Simucube 50.8 mm to 70 mm Adapter is recommended”. That one reads whole only once the tags come out, because a <span data-teams="true"> wraps the part’s name inside it, and the two spaces before “mm” in that name are narrow no-break spaces rather than ordinary ones.

The online guide says the same thing about the Simucube 2 route in a plainer sentence. Its Link Quick Release page closes with “Simucube 2 wheelbases do not support mounting Link Quick Release directly to the wheelbase.” and, of the adapter that fixes that, “Note that the adapter only allows for the mechanical functions of Link Quick Release. Wireless power and data transfer is not supported on Simucube 2 wheelbases.”

The quick release can be fitted to a wheel that cannot use it at all. Both the accessory page and the Simucube 3 page say the wheel-side is “supported on some Simucube Link compatible wheels” and add: “Whether or not these electronic features are supported by your steering wheel, Link Quick Release can still nevertheless be used for purely mechanical attachment purposes.” The installation step for that case is to put the wire nowhere: “For wheels with no electronic support for Link Quick Release features, the cable may be tucked inside the rectangular shaped cavity of the Quick Release.”

How Simucube names its two couplings

Across 37 store pages and 26 online-guide pages read on 5 August 2026, Simucube names the Simucube 3 coupling ten ways and the Simucube 2 coupling nine. Each row below is one literal string, located with str.count over each page’s served bytes, and the rows are not disjoint: a longer wording contains the shorter ones inside it, so the file counts are per string rather than per mention of the part.

Wording	Where
”Simucube Link Quick Release”	21 files, the most widespread of all of them
”Link Quick Release for Simucube 3”	10 files, and the store listing’s own title
”Link Quick release”	The store listing’s own short description, and the online guide’s navigation label for two of its pages, which is why it reaches 27 files
”Simucube 3 Quick Release”	The Savu and Valo Compatibility blocks and dropdown options, the 50.8 mm adapter guide, and the Tuner guide
”Wheelside” over “Link Quick Release”	The online guide’s Simucube 3 Items needed list, once, where a link tag sits between the two words so no contiguous string on the page holds the wording
”Simucube Link Quick Release wheelbase side part”	The online guide’s Simucube 3 Quick release page, once
”Link Quick Release male part”	The Simucube 2 Link Quick Release Adapter’s box list and three guide pages
”Link Quick Release male side”	The same adapter’s package-contents table in the guide, once
”Simucube 3 quickrelease”	The Savu guide page’s package lists, twice
”SC3 compatible quickrelease”	The Savu guide page’s configuration matrix, once
”Simucube Quick Release”	23 files, including both Simucube 2 base listings and the FAQ
”Simucube 2 Quick Release”	39 files, the widest string on this table
”Simucube Quick Release Wheel side Kit”	Its own $109.00 listing, the Simucube 2 accessories category, and both Simucube 2 base listings
”Simucube Quick Release for Simucube 2”	The four Tahko box lists, once each
”Simucube 2 Wheelbase Side Quick Release”	The $99.00 adapter’s box list and the guide page for it
”Simucube Wheel Side Quick Release”	The GSI Formula Pro Elite v2’s box list, once, and nowhere else
”(SQR)“	The guide’s Simucube 2 Quick Release Adapter page, once
”(SQR1)“	The guide’s Simucube 2 Link Quick Release Adapter page, once
”incl. SQR”	The Simucube 2 Sport and Pro dimension rows

The two abbreviations are on two guide pages about the same part. One reads “the previous generation Simucube 2 Quick Release (SQR)” and the other “your existing original quick release (SQR1) system”. Neither page expands the other’s form, and no store listing uses either.

The guide spells its own product line two ways in one heading and skips one wheel. Its Wheels index is headed “Simcube Wheels” over the sentence “Here are the manuals for the Simucube wheels.”, and links two entries, “Simucube Valo wheels” and “Simucube Tahko GT-21 and Round-23”. The store calls that second family the Tahko Round, and “Round-23” occurs once in the guide and zero times across the 37 store pages. The guide also publishes a Savu page at Wheels/Savu/Savu.html, reachable from its sidebar and not from that index. A third variant rides the footer of every store page: the link to the chooser reads “Steering wheel options for Simcube 3” on all 37.

LightBridge is spelled two ways and described two ways

LightBridge is the name for what happens inside the Link Quick Release. Simucube’s clearest statement of it is on the Simucube Link Platform page: “LightBridge replaces traditional slip rings with a contactless infrared data link and inductive power coupling”. The same page prints, on a line of its own, “LightBridge is contactless, not wireless. The difference is reliability.”

Three other Simucube pages call it wireless in so many words. The Link Quick Release listing’s FAQ answers “What is Simucube LightBridge?” with “It’s our new brushless, contactless and wireless power and data transfer system. With this system. New steering wheels released by Simucube and partners utilise this technology.” The FAQ’s Simucube 2 versus Simucube 3 answer lists “Wireless Quick Release: power and data transfer through LightBridge. No cables, instant swaps.”, where the space printed after the colon is a U+00A0 no-break space in the served bytes rather than an ordinary one. And the Simucube 2 Quick Release Adapter’s technical list reads “Wireless data and power transfer via Lightbridge is not supported when using this adapter.”

The Link Platform page spells it both ways inside one screen. Its section heading is “Simucube LightBridge”; a feature card higher on the same page is headed “Lightbridge” over “Power and data to steering wheels through infra red light and induction without wearing, cables, or batteries.”

The count, and the method. Each of the 37 store pages and 26 guide pages was rendered to plain text by stripping script, style, and tag content and decoding HTML entities, and each spelling counted in that text with grep -oF | wc -l. “LightBridge” occurs 23 times across 9 store pages and 0 times across the guide. “Lightbridge” occurs 5 times across 5 store pages and once in the guide, on the Simucube 2 Quick Release Adapter page. Four store pages carry both spellings: the Link Platform page and all three Simucube 3 base listings, each of which prints “Simucube Lightbridge” in one FAQ answer and “LightBridge” elsewhere. Ten store pages carry at least one of the two.

Where Simucube’s own pages disagree

Every pair below is two Simucube statements read the same day. None is resolved here.

Two dates for when the hub became mandatory. The FAQ says “One Link Hub is required to operate all Simucube products released after 2022.” The hub’s own listing bullet, printed three times in its served bytes and repeated in its JSON-LD description, says “Connects all Simucube devices after 2024”.

Two reasons the hub is required, and three names for the one option that supplies it. Four wheel listings sell the hub as an option and all four give the same instruction, but no two of them write the whole of it the same way. The Savu Sport and Savu Pro open it flatly, “Note! Simucube Link Hub is required.”; the Valo GT-23 and its Leather Version condition it on one feature instead, “Simucube Link is required to operate the LED lights in Simucube Tuner.”; and all four then run on into “If you do not own Simucube Link Hub, please choose the option” and name it. The name comes out three different ways. The Savu Sport writes “+Link Hub”, the Savu Pro and the Valo GT-23 Leather Version write “+ Link Hub” with a space, and the Valo GT-23 writes “Including Simucube Link”. Counted with grep -oF | wc -l on 5 August 2026, in each listing’s own encoding: the Savu Sport’s name occurs once in its bytes, the Savu Pro’s once in its bytes, the Valo GT-23’s twice in its bytes as “Including Simucube Link”, and the Valo Leather Version’s twice in its bytes as “+ Link Hub”, the second occurrence on each Valo page being its own box-contents line. The curly quotation marks around every one of them are Simucube’s, and the two families do not serve them the same way: the Savu listings carry them as literal characters and the Valo listings as the entities “ and ”. None of the three names matches the dropdown the instruction points at, which is headed “Choose your configuration” on all four listings and offers “Simucube 3 Quick Release + Link Hub” and “Simucube 2 Quick Release + Link Hub”.

Three bolt patterns for the same joint. The FAQ’s wheel answer says “All wheels compatible with a 50.4 mm or 70 mm bolt pattern are compatible with the Simucube Quick Release.” Its next answer says “You can use any wheel with 5x70mm mounting.” The Savu listings’ technical block says “Mounting: 6x ⌀70mm bolt pattern. Three M5 threaded holes, three through holes.” and the online guide describes the Link Quick Release’s own face as three threaded holes and three non-threaded slots. Every other Simucube surface read here gives the smaller circle as 50.8 mm, including the adapter Simucube named for it, so 50.4 appears to be a typing error, but it is what the FAQ says.

A tool the kit does not contain. The Simucube 3 70 mm Adapter’s package-contents table lists a tool kit of “L-key 3 mm Hex” and “L-key T10 Torx”, and its own installation step reads “Use a 4mm hex key to attach the three (3) supplied M5x20 hex screws and the locking washers”. The 50.8 mm adapter’s guide page lists no tool kit at all and calls for a 4mm hex key in both of its installation paths.

Two screw lengths in one document. The Simucube 2 Link Quick Release Adapter’s package contents list “M5x12 hex head countersunk screw” at 3 pcs, and Installation option 2 of the same page instructs “Use the three (3) supplied M5x16 countersunk hex screws and a 3mm hex key”.

Three Tuner version numbers. The store sells it at a URL reading simucube-tuner-3-0-software, that page’s own copy says “Simucube Tuner 3.1 supports all Simucube 2 & 3 wheelbases, including Simucube 2 & 3 Sport, Pro, Ultimate.”, the Downloads page offers “Simucube Tuner 3.1”, and the chooser table’s Software row reads “Simucube Tuner 3.0+” in four of its five columns. The Ultimate in that sentence is a base Simucube’s own Wheelbases collection did not serve that day on the Simucube 2 side.

A shipping date that has passed. The Link Quick Release’s FAQ still carries “When will Simucube Link Quick Release be available for sale?” answered “Simucube Link Quick Release will begin shipping to customers in November. Demand is expected to be very high, which means it’s possible some orders are filled during December.”, on a listing whose own stock line read “In stock” on 5 August 2026.

Two accessory counts. The category sidebar on every store page files Accessories against 27, the number sitting in a <span class="count"> of its own beside the link text, while the Accessories category page itself heads “Showing 1–12 of 24 results”, the dash being the entity Simucube serves.

What to check before you order

On the wheel, first. Which of the three routes its own listing names, not which class a chooser table puts it in. Four of Simucube’s ten wheel listings name the Link Hub, one names the Link Quick Release and not the hub, four name the “Simucube Wireless Wheel System” without naming any part you buy, and one names a USB data cable. A wheel from one of the eight partner brands is on that brand’s word rather than Simucube’s, and Simucube’s own showcase links only three of the nine partner wheels it names.

On the base, second, because it rules routes out. A Simucube 3 arrives with the wheelbase side of the Link Quick Release fitted and no wheel side. A Simucube 2 arrives with neither side and an antenna for the wireless route. Wireless power across the joint exists only on a Simucube 3 with the Link Quick Release on both ends, and Simucube rules it out by name on the Simucube 2 on three separate pages. This site’s own Ascher Racing F28-SC V2 review says the opposite of a Simucube 2, that “the quick release carries power and signal with no coiled USB”, and then names the 14250 lithium cell that powers the wheel in the next sentence; steering wheels puts the battery version of it correctly. That conflict is recorded here and not resolved here, because settling it takes Simucube rather than a reading.

Then price the parts, not the wheel. The hub is $159.00 alone and $100.00 as an option on seven listings, so buy it inside a box if you are buying a box. The wheel-side Link Quick Release is $169.00 and every wheel Simucube sells for a Simucube 3 already has one, on its own FAQ: “Yes, all steering wheels sold in the Simucube store include Quick Release for Simucube 2 or Link Quick Release for Simucube 3.” You buy the $169.00 part for a rim you already own.

If the rim is a formula wheel. Check whether its pattern is 50.8 mm. That is a second $99.00 part, and it is the only adapter here that keeps the wireless features rather than removing them.

If you are bringing older Simucube wheels across. Decide which end to adapt before you buy, because the two directions cost different money and lose the same thing. $99.00 puts the old coupling on the new base, $69.00 puts the new coupling on the old base, and Simucube says wireless power and data survive neither.

If you are leaving the ecosystem. The $69.00 Simucube 3 70 mm Adapter takes any third-party 70 mm quick release, at the price Simucube heads its own block with, “Wireless power and data transfer is not supported”, and the Simucube 3 base still needs its hub to operate. Simucube states the USB route plainly and states its limit just as plainly: no passthrough, so the wheel’s cable runs to the computer.

The cross-brand version of all of this, including which rims bolt to which adapters and where the button data stops, is in wheel rims and quick-releases. For the other three manufacturers with a guide of their own here, see the Fanatec QR2 guide, the Simagic QR guide, and the Thrustmaster quick release guide. For the wheels themselves, see steering wheels, and for the third-party wheel with a review here that uses the Simucube Wireless Wheel route, the Ascher Racing F28-SC V2. For the bases, see high-end wheelbases and wheelbases.

Sources

Every URL below returned HTTP 200 on 5 August 2026 unless noted, fetched with a browser user agent, and every price, count, quotation, and table cell above was read that day. Store prices are each listing’s own JSON-LD price with "valueAddedTaxIncluded":false, matching the figure printed on the page; for the listings that sell options, the figures come from the data-product_variations attribute of the listing’s own variations form, read out of the served HTML with its entities decoded and the array parsed, because the rendered page prints only a range.

• The route table and the partner showcase: How to choose the right steering wheel for Simucube 3. Its six rows were read by parsing the page’s own hide-for-small row elements in order and taking the first five values of each, and checked against the five stacked per-column blocks the same page serves for narrow screens. https://simucube.com/en-us/gsi-x-simucube-x-29/, linked from that page’s USB group, returns HTTP 404.
• The platform: Simucube Link Platform for both LightBridge descriptions, the “Lightbridge” feature card, and the hub sentence; and the developer page Simucube Link for what the hub is.
• The eight parts, each for its price, SKU, box list, and compatibility sentences: Simucube Link at $159.00; Link Quick Release for Simucube 3 at $169.00, which is also where the four-question FAQ including the November shipping answer sits; Simucube Quick Release Wheel side Kit at $109.00; Simucube 50.8 mm to 70 mm Adapter at $99.00; Simucube 2 Quick Release Adapter for Simucube 3 at $99.00; Simucube 2 Link Quick Release Adapter at $69.00; Simucube 3 70 mm Adapter at $69.00; and Simucube Quick Release lock pin at $19.00. The two adapter listings whose marketing blocks are pasted from a word processor, the 70 mm and the 50.8 mm, are the two whose sentences are split across dozens of spans; the only strings quoted here out of either block are its third heading, “Wireless power and data transfer is not supported” on the 70 mm listing and “Supports wireless power and data transfer” on the 50.8 mm one, each of which sits inside a single span and so occurs once in its page’s served bytes.
• The bases: Simucube 3 Sport, Simucube 3 Pro, and Simucube 3 Ultimate for the three shared FAQ answers, the “Does NOT include” line, and the six variation prices; Simucube 2 Sport at $999.00 and Simucube 2 Pro at $1,299.00 for the “Wireless Wheel Support:” row, the “incl. SQR” dimension, and the missing side parts. The collection those five come from is Wheelbases, which printed “Showing all 5 results”.
• The wheel census: Steering Wheels, which printed “Showing all 10 results” and served 10 product cards, and the ten listings behind it: Savu Sport, Savu Pro, Valo GT-23, Valo GT-23 Leather Version, Simucube x BavarianSimTec Delta Pro SC, Tahko GT-21 Wireless Wheel, Tahko GT-21 Black Edition, Tahko Round Black Edition, Tahko Round Orange Edition, and Limited Edition GSI x Simucube Formula Pro Elite v2.
• Simucube’s own answers: the FAQ for the hub requirement, the two bolt patterns, the quick-release inclusion, the USB answer, and the three-route summary; the blog article it links, which carries “LightBridge” four times; Simucube Tuner for the 3.1 support sentence at a 3.0 URL; and Support and Downloads, the two pages that point at the online guide.
• The online guide at docs.simucube.com, 26 of whose pages were read: Simucube 3 Quick release for the pre-installed wheelbase side and the Simucube 2 limitation; Simucube 3 Items needed for the two sold-separately lines; Wireless Wheels for the two ways a Link-compatible wheel can connect; Link Quick release for the package contents and the mechanical-only case; the four adapter pages, Simucube 2 Link Quick release Adapter, Simucube 2 Quick Release Adapter for Simucube 3, 70mm Adapter, and 50.8mm / 70mm Adapter; Simucube 2 Items needed for the antenna and the Ultimate package list; Savu for the four-configuration matrix, whose check marks are inline SVG elements read out of the table’s own cells; the Wheels index headed “Simcube Wheels”; and Steering Wheel Configuration View in the Tuner section.
• The category counts read here come from two places: the sidebar every store product page carries, whose figures sit in <span class="count"> elements beside each link, and the Accessories category page’s own heading. Its two subcategories were read as well, Simucube 3 wheelbase accessories at “Showing all 9 results” and Simucube 2 wheelbase accessories at “Showing all 7 results”, and both served the number of cards they announced. The two wheelbase subcategories, Simucube 3 wheelbases and Simucube 2 wheelbases, were read the same day and are the last two of the 37 store pages every count on this page runs over. The other 35 are the simucube.com URLs named above, not counting the one that returns HTTP 404.
• The 26 guide pages counted alongside them are the 13 named above and 13 more that carry nothing quoted here: the Simucube 3 index, FAQ, Cabling, and Specifications pages; the Simucube 2 index, Cabling, quick release, and quick release motor side pages; the Accessories page for the Simucube 2 quick release; the Valo and Tahko wheel manuals; and the Tuner index and LED configuration pages.