• Which hubs/spokes/rims would be a good way to go to have a light (1300-1400g) pair of rim brake wheels built up?

    Edit - alu clinchers.

    I'm not desperate to go tubeless and nor am I bothered about going particularly wide, partly because the clearance between my stays isn't very generous - there's only about 3mm either side of a 23mm tyre on a Ksyrium as it is.

    Budget is £500-600.

  • Which hubs/spokes/rims would be a good way to go to have a light (1300-1400g) pair of rim brake wheels built up?

    Edit - alu clinchers

    I'm not convinced that there is a good way to do that. DT RR440 rims + DT240 hubs + 20/24 Aerolites/CX-Rays add up to nearly 1500g, where are you going to lose 100g, still less 200g, without compromising the wheel structure? Even using Tune Mig70/Mag170 doesn't get you under 1400g and might go through the budget limit.

    WH-9000 is within budget and claims to be sub-1400g, if you want skinny lightweight wheels you're unlikely to do better than that.

  • The answer to the question, crucially, depends on how much you weigh. Very light riders can get away with more lightweight builds then heavy riders.
    There are some builds out there using Ryde Pulse Sprint or Ryde Pulse Comp rims, Bitex RAF10 & RAR9 hubs using Sapim CXRays that could get you down to that weight. The Ryde Pulse rims also come in offset for the rear so more equal spoke tensions for the DS & NDS can be achieved making a more stable, robust wheel.

    But once again this comes down to rider weight.

  • Which hubs/spokes/rims would be a good way to go to have a light (1300-1400g) pair of rim brake wheels built up?

    The new DT Swiss RR 21 DICUT is 1415gr and those have 240's internals so you know it's reliable. The price point is less than the C24's which is a plus.

    There's also the new Ritchey Superlogic Zeta wheelset at 1391grams with a cool exalith like treatment. The price is on par with the C24. Both of these wheels are tubeless ready and both 17+c internal.

  • I've been looking at this for sometime. I'm after super light clinchers that I can race hill climbs on but also take to Majorca etc and not melt on the descents, so no carbon clinchers.

    Conclusion being: Ryde Pulse Spring, CX-Ray, Bitex. The very cheapest I've found them is built by a German wheel builder. They also ship internationally. Google does a good job of translating their site. They also do a set with CN424 spokes for even cheaper in the "special offers" section. If you're really not bothered about width then they do these too.

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