Yes. Carbon wheels are amazing these days! I'm a heavyweight guy and have nothing but good luck with a set of 45mm deep carbon wheels with bi-tex hubs and pillar db spokes from BTLOS. I even got the extralight rims and aluminum nipples! I have two sets of these wheels one for my carbon Trek and the other for my Della Santa and they weigh 1305g and 1304g for the pair. The lightness is immediately noticeable on both bikes. In contrast, I have a set of wheels on my Ellis which are HED rims (Ardennes +) and although they supposedly light for aluminum rims (I think the wheelset is like 1600g?) they feel like a boat anchor compared to the carbon wheels.
Note, a week ago, I broke a spoke on a climb. I wasn't pushing too hard and then I heard a pop. What was weird is it was the left/nondrive side spoke. I brought it into a local shop and he said the nondrive side spokes were straightpull and didn't have a lot of tension. So after replacing the spokes with one that came with the wheelset, he re-trued and re-tensioned the entire wheel. Took it out yesterday and it rode fine. Of course, YMMV! Good Luck! PS - a wheelset with extralight rims/pillar spokes/bi-tex hubs/shimano freehub is like $700 or so shipped. Well, that's before all this tariff nonsense...not that much more than a good lightweight aluminum rim wheelset. On Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 8:09:22 PM UTC-7 [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 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/0c2e14a9-1165-41eb-a132-904f92cd15aen%40googlegroups.com.
