Light Bicycle wheel sets

[2ono]

Has anyone on here got a set of Light Bicycle wheels, or any recommendations for them?

[Cats_pyjamas]

For my road bike, I just got a set of ztto wheels with dt swiss style hubs from Ali express.

They come in about 350g lighter than the OEM wheelset at 1640g the pair, which is pretty light really.

They cost £93 delivered, the Hubs are fully service able so I wasn't too fussed at the possible lower quality bearings. Super impressed to be honest. Only draw back was that they took about 3 weeks to arrive, which wasn't ideal when the OEM rear hub was slowly grinding itself to death and I needed to commute to work on it!

Edit: didn't even realise it was a brand!

Edited by Cats_pyjamas on Saturday 27th September 16:53

[Pablo16v]

I have three LB wheelsets. One pair of 35mm rims which were laced onto Hope Pro2 Evo hubs back in April 2014 and are still going strong on my full susser, with a second set of 35mm rims also laced onto Pro2 Evo hubs built in 2016 which are on my hardtail. I cracked the rear a couple of years later catching a concrete drainage channel at speed, and LB were great supplying a replacement for the cost of shipping which if I recall was around $50, and they've survived a fair amount of riding since then.
I also picked up a second hand pair of 650b 29mm rims on Pro4 hubs which I planned to use on my last gravel bike, but I sold it before getting a chance to try the wheels out and my current gravel bike is 700c so they are gathering dust in the garage at the moment.

I haven't looked at their prices for a while but based on my MTB experience I would be happy to buy from them again and could be tempted to try a pair of their 700c rims using the Pro4 hubs from the 650b set to save costs.

[shirt]

Mine must be 10ish years old now as well. Had them (road bike, rim brake, tubeless) built up using tune hubs and dt Swiss spokes. Never had an issue with them, still on the bike to this day.

[mattvanders]

Got a set of nextie rims for the mountain bike, have had friends run light bike rims. Haven’t seen any real problems with either over some of the other Chinese manufactured and then rebranded rims

[IroningMan]

Somewhat mixed experience. I have a pair of R65 rim brake rims, which I built up with DTSwiss hubs and Sapim spokes. The rear is still going strong after three years, but the front brake track delaminated in Mallorca just a few weeks after I built it.

LB replaced it, FOC, although they wanted to be paid for the shipping. The replacement was fine until this summer, when it suffered the same problem in the Alps. I’ve ordered another, but this is still ‘in production’ after two months.

[2ono]

Thanks for the replies all, think i will order myself a set of AR565's as I smashed my rear wheel yesterday on a bloody pothole. Will post some pics and a review when they arrive

[markcp]

I've got 2 sets and they've both been excellent.

First was AR36 on Hope hubs built by myself for my winter bike and they've been faultless considering the abuse they get. I've recently got a set of Airia 47/55 (on DT 240s) for my summer bike and I'm really pleased with them especially considering the branded equivalents would be £3k+. All in they were circa £1200 and come in at 1280g.