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I built some (Admittedly very bling) 29er wheels for a mate last night and they did seem a bit light, so I stuck them on the scales, 830g front, 980g rear. Is that pretty damned light or am I imagining it?
Quite light for 29er wheels I'd say, being as 29er rims and tyres and spokes generally are 10% or so heavier than their 26" equivalents.
What wheels were they? Can tell you my 29er wheels weigh a lot more than that, but then the rear hub is a shimano alfine though! Mind you, my front wheel (mavic tn719 on shimano XT hub) is probably heavier than your mates rear wheel...
It's not bad for an all-round wheelset...not really xc race weight (bonty race x lites, stans ZTR wheelsets etc are a couple of hundred grams lighter and there's crazy expensive carbon wheelsets out there a fair whack lighter again)
...but you certainly won't be blaming the wheels if you don't get to the top of a climb 😉
King hubs
Stans Arch (I think) Rims
DT Swiss Supercomp spokes
Black (Brass, alloy is crap) nipples
They are a really nice set of hoops... I wish they were mine, TBH 🙂
They'd be even lighter with Pro 2s!
The ZTR Race wheelset weighs 1370g, that's about the lightest that's still sensible, but they have weight and pressure limits.
PP - about the same weight as mine, and a very similar spec. mine were 1730g allup.
They'd be even lighter with Pro 2s!
Thats what I used, and I'm pretty sure the were sub 1800g 😀
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It does strike me as another reason not to buy King hubs, that Hopes at 1/3 the price weigh less!
For the record, he already had the King hubs from a set of wheels he got for a silly cheap price. And they are the Pewter ones. Not my thing, to be fair, but they look fantastic.
Personally, I'd go for Royce hubs if I had the money.