Saving dynamic weight from your wheelset

Wheels of Happiness

Rizal Philippines
February 14, 2018

If you really want to upgrade your bike and ride, one of the investments you can make is on wheelset.  And after the wheelset, you must invest in tires and tubes.

Now may be you have a 1.4 carbon wheelset and you invest in cheap tires that weigh 400 grams each  x 2 =  800 grams) and tubes that weigh 150 grams each (x 2 = 300 grams) and you end up with heavy rotating mass:    1.4 +  .8 + .3 kg =  2.5 kg wheels.  Your tires and tubes could easily weigh your light
wheelset by more than 1 kg.  Rotating mass is x 3.  That is additional 3 kg when you accelerate or climb.  That is a lot x number of rotations.  It could be as much 5 tons in a ride.

But let us say you buy  Conti Supersonic  at 180 grams x 2 =  360 and lightweight butyl tubes at 90 grams x 2 =   180, your additional weight to your carbon fiber wheelset is only 540 grams and your total weight for the wheels is only 540 + 1400 =  1,940.  You save about 500 grams the same weight you save in buying:   the carbon wheel set, or the carbon frame.

Kenda too sells lightweight Kenda Kaliente wheels (200 grams or less) and superlight tubes (90 grams) Meron sa Missing Link

Butyl tubes are recommended to make your wheels light.  Now you have Silca butyl tubes  (made in Thailand in collaboration with Vittoria)

Lightweight Maxxis tubes only 90 grams and P239.00 php each PUNCTURE RESISTANT PA!!