Lightweight Disc Wheel Review

With the mavic ksyrium elite ust disc now available i ve dropped the zonda disc brake wheelset from this latest version of the road disc wheelset upgrade category review.

Lightweight disc wheel review. The scope r3 is the company s lightest wheelset weighing just 1440g in rim brake guise 1447g for the disc version. The previous maximum values of comparable disc braked wheels were 6000 7000 braking operations before they were damaged. These wheels are very competitively priced and very lightweight at just 1 340g with tubeless tape and valves in place. The internal rim width is pretty wide at 27mm providing a decent tire profile and they are tubeless and disc brake ready.

Buyer s guide to road bike wheels. The elite s 19c heavy 1675 grams and is not tubeless ready. In our carbon wheels we combine lightweight construction stability stiffness and comfort thus ensuring perfect harmony between rider road bike and its wheelset. The lightweight wheels are remarkably fast stiff and responsive and combined with their depth makes them ideal for climbing descending and going.

While less expensive the zonda is narrower 17c vs. The rims are supremely stiff and now been widened 22mm to better pair with wider tyres. Lightweight claims these are the lightest and stiffest carbon disc brake wheels money can buy. At just 1 340g with tubeless tape and valves in place these are seriously lightweight disc brake wheels.

At 1 370g they re certainly close to being the lightest disc brake wheelset we ve reviewed on road cc but it s in the stiffness department that these wheels really blow away the competition. Lightweight autobahn tubular 700c rear disc wheel at sigma sport for 3 049. Since we reviewed them hunt has updated these wheels to include a hooked rim which helps. As one of campagnolo s best selling wheels the zonda is a lightweight alloy training wheel.

Like all scope products the r3 wheels are designed as a system meaning. We offer our road bike wheelsets in different rim variants with clincher tubular and tubeless tyres as well as with rim brakes and disc brakes. He was informed that the meilenstein wheel had survived 8000 of these full load braking operations without damage.