Tom -
I was reading a couple more articles on your website and like how you weigh products and compare them vs. the actaul weight of the ones sitting in your shop…
Any chance you have a set of Hed3 tubularts 700c or Zipp 404 700c tubulars sitting around that could get actual weights and post for us (me) ?
Just curious as I am trying to make a decision and was curious how closely I could rely on publish data…
Thanks
Good poinit madisonbucky, and funny you should mention that.
We do have those wheels here, but it is late and I have to be at a early swim practice tomorrow so please forgive me for not weighing them right now. I will tomorrow.
Yesterday we recieved two pairs of Zero Gravity brake calipers. They were advertised at 96 grams. We calibrated our scale, zeroed it and put the brake calipers on it. I’ll be darn, only 92 grams! I was impressed.
I haven;t forgotten you madisonbucky. With all this New Zealand hub-bub I am on my way out of here to go see Lord of the Rings. I’ll give you some wheel weights tomorrow, I promise.
…thanks Tom, look forward to it.
OK, we weighed an assortment of wheels from the ceiling that we have in stock in the store. This is kind of a random sampling that you can use to check against manufacturer’s claimed weights for verification. We calibrated and zeroed our scale before we started so this is accurate to within +/- 2 grams at worst. All measured with no tire, no QR.
650c tubular Reynolds Stratus Carbon: 505 grams/front.
700c clincher Mavic Cosmic Carbone: 904 grams/rear.
650c tubular Hed Jet: 690 grams/front.
700c tubular Mavic IO: 826 grams/front.
650c tubular Hed 3: 990 grams/rear.
650c tubular X-Lab 3 spoke: 872 grams/rear.
The pleasant surprise is the X-Lab rear wheel. Pretty impressive. Sorry for thew random nature of this. I hope it is of some use.
Hey, Tom
the Cosmic Carbon seems very light for a rear one ?
I guess it’s the front wheel’s weight because the rear is generally around 1100-1150 g.
May you confirm that ?