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My 2012/13 Boardman CX disc bike is ace, but the wheels are heavy.
Off road I am not too bothered but it would be nicer to have some lighter wheels for on road.
Can you get light cheap CX set ups ie less than £300, or am I better using the current wheels for CX and say spending £150 and some road specific wheels.
I guess what I am actually asking is, for less than £300 will there be much difference in weight/durability of road v CX wheel sets, should I just get a lighter CX wheelset ?
Ta
hopes with crests are a decent choice. £350ish.
Kinesis cx disc wheels seem pretty good value
Superstar were doing cheapish wheels with Stans Iron Cross rims recently.
...or just keep an eye out for a second hand bargain. 29er wheels will work on a CX bike (same diameter as 700c, just make sure rim is not too wide), I found 2 sub 1950g wheelsets each at £50 for my Boardman CX Comp, 500g lighter than the stock Mavic wheelset on the 2014 spec. OK not quite as light as you might go with a £350 budget, but a big step in the right direction for a lot less pennies...
I have a Boardman CX and have swapped off the original wheels for a pair of Mavic CrossOne Disc 29er.
They're doing the job just fine, bearings are running super smooth and they're noticeably lighter than the original wheels. Not that expensive either (£150 ish)
Do you know the weight of the stock wheels?
Mine didn't come with wheels so I had to buy some anyway. In the end I came away thinking that I probably didn't save much.
I cant remember the weight now, but they are Superstar Pacenti CL25 on Tesla hubs but not with the cxray spokes (D-Light I think).
My stock CX Comp 2014 XM319 wheels without skewers but with rim tape were 2414g (1090g F / 1324g R)
Hefty!
I think the kinesis cx wheelseto is about 1500g
I think the kinesis cx wheelseto is about 1500g
More or less.
[url= http://www.kinesisbikes.co.uk/products/wheels/crosslight-cxdisc ]Weight: Front: 689g. Rear: 866g.[/url]
So for the money £240 it doesnt look like you can beat the Kinesis wheelset.
Whats the minimum tyre width you can run? I have looked on the website and can not see ?
We have designed these wheels to work perfectly with our ‘Crosslight Pro6‘ frameset
sorry, what?
Translation: We make nice CX frames too.. you should buy one to compliment the wheels.
que, who is doing em for 240?So for the money £240 it doesnt look like you can beat the Kinesis wheelset
How are they for tubeless? What's max psi for road tyres? How durable/serviceable is the freehub?
http://www.freeborn.co.uk/kinesis-crosslight-cxdisc-wheels?gclid=CK_50bOmvb8CFcbJtAodQhkAJg
Heard the free hub bodys are a bit soft.. but that might be last years
Kinesis have just confirmed the rim will take 25mm which is good!
Bloody useless forum people who cant answer questions....
A quick word on durability - a well-built, lightweight set of 'road' wheels will be more than strong enough. E.g., I got a pair of DTSwiss RR1450s, (28h, 1450 g/pr), they did a couple of years on the road, couple of seasons of CX and the Three Peaks, twice, before I decided to replace the rear rim because it was a bit dinged and had worn brake tracks. Front is still fine 🙂
(I weigh 70 kg and I'm none too gentle with bikes and bits.)
oh yeah just remembered charlie has some CX wheels going cheap
http://www.charliethebikemonger.com/stans-alpha-340-disc-rims-on-sram-x9-disc-hub-wheels-5152-p.asp
Hubs are a bit of an unknown to me (same as kinesis really) but rims are what I was after (good for tubeless and can handle reasonably high psi)
Im torn between buying some chinese carbon disc road wheels and using a set of these as road wheels.. £240 is pretty damn good.
Whats the weight on those wheels from charlie?? Seem to remember reading somewhere those 340 rims are a bit flexi
The chinese carbon disc road wheels have a pretty narrow internal width in comparison though, which is a downer.
cloudnine
18bikes have em too.- Front 840g
- Rear 1020g
- Pair 1860g
IIRC Stans did a road wheelset with something like 24/28 spokes, I can believe they would be a bit flexy, but with 32spokes I can't see it myself (speaking from no experience at all)
The other wheels i fancy are these.. (23mm wide rim 1400g wheelset), about £350 with postage
Just pulled the trigger on the freeborn kinesis wheelset.. great price
Cloudnine - How are you finding the wheels?
Do they feel any lighter when riding the bike?