On Monday, 2 June 2025 at 1:09:22 pm UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: I'm curious about putting lighter wheels on my Roadini. Anyone running really light weight wheels? Carbon? Noticeable changes in speed/comfort/stats? I wanna try em, but I don't want to drop $1000+ to find out it's not worth it.
You don't say what rims your present wheels are built with, or what tyres you're running, but I doubt that you'll notice much if any difference from changing the wheels. Tyres, that's a different matter. If you're dissatisfied with what you're riding at the moment, look at getting lighter tyres and fit lighter tubes inside them. I've built several pairs of wheels using CF rims, but they were all for disc brake bikes. I wouldn't use CF rims with rim brakes - braking performance, particularly in the wet, and even with the proper CF brake pads, is worse than with Al rims, and the brake track being a wear item, CF is going to wear faster than Al. I have a fairly lightweight set of wheels with Al rims on my Riv custom - DT Swiss RR411 rims laced to White Industries MI5 hubs. I can't say, though, that I really noticed a difference from the previous wheels I was using, which were Mavic MA2 rims laced to Campagnolo hubs. The only reason I swapped the wheels was because I like building wheels and I already had the parts. Nick Payne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/7eb2932f-6662-4d64-bece-762e82dd75c7n%40googlegroups.com.
