Real-world wheel weights

[Cyclist33]

For no particular reason, I hereby publish the wheel weights of my two pairs of wheels as currently shod - rim tape, cassette, QR skewers, tubes and tyres included:

Fulcrum Racing 5 2013 model, with Vittoria Rubino Pro folding 23mm tyres.
Front: 1250g
Rear: 1600g


Vision Team 30 2014 model, with Michelin Pro4 Endurance folding 25mm tyres.
Front: 1160g
Rear: 1660g

So there.

 

[Smurfy]

I'd post some of mine up, but I don't own a digital balance.
It will be interesting to see the spread, or possibly lack of spread if other people post theirs.

 

[Cyclist33]

Nor do I -- kitchen scales did the job!

 

[Dave Loasby]

vittoria pro team 700x25 non folding, cheap ass inner tubes, 11-21 dura ace cassette on some donated old mavic heliums.
1140g front.
1499g rear.

quite happy as all i paid for were the tyres and tubes

 

[Boon 51]

Good thread..
Its funny how the real world weights turn out, the makers claim this and that and its nothing like what they really are.. akin to adding VAT on everything

 

[RecordAceFromNew]

I hope I am not spoiling the fun of reinventing the wheel...

 

[Cyclist33]

I hope I am not spoiling the fun of reinventing the wheel...

you're not -- those weights aren't all-up as they don't include QR skewers or cassettes (or rim tape, tyres and tubes).

 

[RecordAceFromNew]

you're not -- those weights aren't all-up as they don't include QR skewers or cassettes (or rim tape, tyres and tubes).

Oh good. I thought I might given they have dropdown menus for each of those categories too. In fact that is just one of several sites with fairly extensive actual component weights.

 

[accountantpete]

They don't update the page much these days but here's weight weenies contribution to the cause:


http://weightweenies.starbike.com/listings/components.php?type=roadwheels

 

[Dusty Bin]

Good thread..
Its funny how the real world weights turn out, the makers claim this and that and its nothing like what they really are.. akin to adding VAT on everything

wheel manufacturers tend not to weigh their wheels with tyres, tubes and cassette fitted, for obvious reasons....

 

[Cyclist33]

wheel manufacturers tend not to weigh their wheels with tyres, tubes and cassette fitted, for obvious reasons....

Hence this thread I started, entitled...

 

[youngoldbloke]

wheel manufacturers tend not to weigh their wheels with tyres, tubes and cassette fitted, for obvious reasons....

Hence this thread I started, entitled...

But this will only really work if we compare like with like - eg exactly the same cassette, tyres, tubes and rim tapes on every pair of wheels. There can be a big difference between the weight of folding and rigid tyres, 23s and 25s. Otherwise you might just as well state 'shock horror finding - manufacturers mislead cyclists - wheels with tyres on heavier than wheels without'.

 

[Cyclist33]

but if you read my OP you can see that I posted it for no particular reason... I'm not trying to engender any debate or otherwise. Just thought I'd post em up so people could see how much the wheel systems were actually weighing.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Fair enough - interesting that Mavic now publish wheel + tyre weights (not sure it includes skewers) for the wheels they supply with their own tyres. The other quoted weight I find not very helpful is frame weight, when you really want to know the total bike weight, as in 'Flashbike Carbon 2013 Ultegra 10 speed, frame weight 1197gms (medium size)'

 

[RecordAceFromNew]

I must say I have never found any reason to look at total wheel weight without knowing what the principal components are - isn't it like wondering how long is a piece of string?

I have also never understood why online there must be at least 10x if not more discussion on wheel (and yes wheel means wheel unshod) than tube choice in relation to weight; with buyers clearly prepared to, and indeed must, pay £X hundreds more to shave 200 grams from a pair of wheels, while that might actually be the penalty they are carrying if they don't even know what tube they have got (and perhaps it is just chance neither example above throws any light on tube make, model and size).

The lightest quality road and mtb tubes are roughly 50g and 100g a piece, yet still cost c£10 each. And no, personally I have not observed any blind bit of difference to puncture resistance in their use.