Looks awesome, I have a set of their 55mm wheels on my roadbike and love them. If I was in the market I'd serious consider this one

Very tempted by this. Was waiting to see what Hunt come up with in the new year, but I might get in contact with Light Bicycle and see if the email they sent about Black Friday discounts is still valid :D

Somehow heavy this disc?

From what I understand about LB is they run tight margins to maintain their price advantage and rarely discount their wheels.
If you missed the Black Friday sale you will probably be out of luck until next year.

Also, delivery times can be quite slow if shipped from Asia. I waited 4 months for my wheels! So... order now if you want wheels in the spring!

I am likely going to order an 88mm front clincher from them in the new year. Prices are great, reputation is good, build components on point. Apparently the overall cost is up with shipping rates high during holiday season. Their customer service thinks rates will decline in February making the total package a little more economical.

I saw from the shipping options there was a huge disparity between 1-2 weeks and February.

Wow, looks nice. I was looking at Prime and RON, but DT hubs and extra width do make this attractive.

Does anyone have experience ordering from LB to Germany? How much tax did you pay? The LB website says that these are not available through the EU warehouse.

Specs indeed look good on paper, though as discs have grown wider the potential for RD clearance issues has also increased. I've recently seen a couple wide discs that didn't have sufficient clearance between the disc and the RD cage, as I was in the market recently for a disc/disc after I switched from a rim brake TT bike.

My prior rim brake Roval 321 had *just* enough clearance and so after experiencing difficulty with these two other discs, went back to the well for a Roval 321 disc/disc and sure enough, it too had just enough clearance - no issues but no margin to spare either. I would be a bit concerned with a newer, unproven wide disc wheel design because you might wait months for it to arrive, only to find out it doesn't quite work, and then you either need to lock out the largest cog (maybe NBD if you live and race in FL) or you'll need to send it back and wait months and months for a replacement that *hopefully* works.

Don't get me wrong, if I was in the market for a disc wheel, this would be a very tempting option, but I'd be crossing my fingers the whole time, as I would with any other new wide disc wheel.

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Unless the wheel you receive is the first to ever get mounted to a bike with the type of groupset you own, this just won't happen

The shipping of my rims took about 8 weeks to Germany, but it was in the first lockdown, so I would assume that it might be a bit faster now.
I opted for the TPD shipping so I didn't had to pay taxes.

I think I will order a disc wheel in the next weeks, maybe also with their Tri Spoke.

Got an update on this when they launched some weeks back, and really peaked my interest as I have two pairs of their wheels. A WR50 disc brake set and a R88 rim brakes set. very good wheels IMO.

Only qualm i have is that the valve hole is left open, and seem to rely on a sticker to seal it. i think its really a missed opportunity on their part. could have designed it with a proper valve cover to make it more seamless.

It might just be my n=1 "anecdata" experience, but I recently had clearance issues with two "boutique" disc wheels. Tried everything to get them to work, confirmed hanger alignment, tried spacers with Wheel #1, even swapped in a new from the box RD to confirm there wasn't something funky with my RD, but they just wouldn't work when shifting to the big cog. Ordered a Roval 321 and everything was in order - no issues. Wheel #1 was returned to the manufacturer. Wheel #2 was replaced by the manufacturer (yes I now have two disc/discs) and the replacement Wheel #2 works fine (at least according to my LBS, who installed it yesterday).

My hypothesis is that the larger manufacturers like Roval and DT Swiss are better able to deliver consistent product with consistent dimensions/clearance because they are making the same disc wheel over and over. The smaller boutique manufacturers, who offer different hubs or construction to address issues like rider weight or chainstay clearance, are more apt to produce a wheel that is slightly out of spec. Or maybe I just got two wheels from different boutique manufacturers that were out of spec and those are isolated instances that are not indicative of a larger issue specific to boutique manufacturers.

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Light Bicycle is NOT a boutique manufacturer and I'm sure they've tested their wheels on a few bikes before they sell.

Derailleur clearance can be an issue on lenticular discs with small granny gears. I sold an old lenticular disc because I needed to run a 34 granny before my derailleur would clear.
A flat disc should not have issues.

I bought some 80mm wheels from Light Bicycle a few years back. Shipping took 4 weeks and they arrived damaged. Light Bicycle very reluctantly agreed to replace them, but I had to send them back, another 4 weeks. Then another 4 weeks waiting for the news one to arrive. They seemed OK, but I hit a stone on a training ride and it buckled the wheel. I've never buckled a wheel on a road or TT bike before. I took it to my LBS and they couldn't do much with it, so I sold them for $150. They cost me $800. I then managed to get a near new Zipp 808 for AU $400 and a Zipp 900 for $700 (near new). That's my experience. I think the quality with Light Bicycles and other Chinese companies is better now, just hope and pray you don't have to do a warranty return. Also the resale is pretty bad. Any 2nd hand Chinese frames, wheels etc are almost unsellable in Australia.

Looks great to me! I have 4 LB wheels and they are great! A set of 55 mm built on DTS 240 exp, a 3 spoke and a 88 mm Rim laced to a Shimano track hub. So far I haven’t had a single issue with them, other than the 88 being a touch wide for my track bike and has picked up a red line around the rim as a result from a few sprints.

Anyone have the profile of it? The small profile on the site seems to be mostly a placeholder of sort - doesn't fit if there should be room for a cassette on one of the sides.

88mm or Tri-spoke, in your opinion which is faster on a TT setup ?

Curious if anyone took delivery and can post some pictures?

Same. Thinking of pulling the trigger.

I ordered one a few months ago. They send pictures before sending it out, similar to the ones you see in the gallery. The first disc I got in the Unpainted finish. It looked terrible. Unacceptable finish and appearance. I had them do another one in the Sunflower finish. It was slightly better but still looked pretty rough. By then I had already lost confidence in the product and was looking elsewhere so I cancelled when the second one also looked bad.

Can’t say anything about the quality of the wheel but my impression is they haven’t quite figured out how to translate from their wheels to a disc. I have a set of their AR55 wheels and they’ve been nothing but great. The disc is a great price point but I think you’re volunteering to be a bit of a Guinea pig…

Weird. My buddy has one and it looks great.

Thanks, I think I’ll sit this one out for now.

Sorry for the delay. I just saw this. My LB 3spoke (pro3 knock off) is the best riding TT wheel I’ve ever ridden. It measures a tad bit wide, my 23mm VFR measures just over 25mm. I really wish they would make a 80mm deep trispoke like this.

My 88mm LB rim was built as a rear so I’m not sure how it is on the front. I can tell you it’s a wee bit wide for my Cervelo T4 track frame and there is a solid red line the whole way around the rim on both sides.

Hunt have their disc back on the website and a comparable price now. Available for delivery early oct.

Hunt looks like the Prime wheel but narrower (just 25mm), heavier, and more expensive.

I actually ordered the LightBicycle disc with DT350 hubs.

Never arrived. After months of waiting, they finally figured out it was lost in transit and refunded the money.

I'm kinda glad. I always feel guilt buying a Chinese product when there are alternatives.

Ended up getting the Citec Disc for not much more. It is also much much lighter, has DT240 hubs, and is made in Germany (just southwest of Berlin).

Perhaps I'm lucky. I was surprised at how quickly my tri spoke wheel from Light Bicycle arrived in Alaska after I ordered it. It took 2 weeks for production before it was shipped, then 4-5 days was delivered by UPS.

I also ordered the version with the DT350 hubs.

The hub is only similar to a DT350 hub. I had some problems with the bearings and completely disassembled the hub. The axle is not from DT Swiss. Ratchet seems to be like the original DT but the hub shell is not from DT. I contacted DT Swiss to compare some dimensions and did not found any of the required serial numbers from DT Swiss.

All in all the Disc Wheel is great, but in my case it is useless crap because of wrong dimensions of the hub so you can't adjust the disc rotor correctly.

I ended up just biting the bullet and ordering a disc from Swiss Side earlier this year. I do not regret the decision.

How do you adjust the disc rotor?

I had an issue with my 2021 Cervelo P series disc brakes with my Light wheel disc. I used some rotor shims and have had no issues since.

https://boydcycling.com/products/centerlock-disc-brake-rotor-shim-4-pack.

Why wouldn't you just adjust the caliper?

The disc rubs on the inside of the caliper . I turned and opened them As much as it allows.

The entire caliper should be able to be moved in what ever direction you need.

If you are at the physical limit of the caliper movement, you could make the mounting holes a little bigger in whatever direction you need.

Makes way more sense to shim your disc rotor. If you shim your rotors so they all are in the same place than you don't need to adjust brakes when swapping wheels. Much better system than modifying your brake caliper...

I don't remember anyone talking about swapping wheels.

That's disappointing. Good to have some honest feedback. I kind of wonder sometimes how many of these glowing product reviews in forums are genuine.... I had a bad experience with LB, although that was a few years ago.

Well that's LB off my list. The amount of wobble is nuts. If that was a rim brake wheel it would be unusable. You could argue that it was a one-off lemon, but then where is the basic quality control? Checking how true it is would take 30s, so they clearly do not understand some very fundamental shit about running a business. And what's the bet they say that's within their set tolerance...

I ordered the C21 on the autumn of 2022, and the first one I received wobbled to the level I was totally shocked (at least 3x as much as in that YT video).
Of course, I sent it back (they also paid return shipping), and the 2nd one was almost completely straight. Eventually, I didn't get any explanation how the first one got through their QC, though, except that "you should mount a tubeless tyre and then it will run straight, as it did in our factory", which, of course, I proved wrong.

Anyway, the 2nd one has worked flawlessly so far, as have a couple of sets of their spoked wheels which I have (and had their 3spoke a while back too, that was good as well).

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Hasn't LB started up a factory in the USA?