Getting below 1350g for a pair of alloy road wheels is difficult – especially when you want to keep both lateral stiffness and durability as high as possible.

These wheels use an American Classic 32 hole rear hub and Alchemy ELF 24 hole front.  The American Classic isn’t my favorite hub to build with because of it’s narrow flange spacing but I knew Stuart had another pair of wheels which I’d built for him using this hub and lateral stiffness was sufficient.

Rims are the light weight Kinlin XR-200.  This was the first pair of wheels I’d built using this rim and I must say that I was quite impressed with the weight and apparent stiffness of the rim.  At 381g and 384g these rims are very light for an alloy clincher.

DT Swiss Revolution spokes and gold nipples hold everything together.  I had some custom gold decals made for both hubs and both Stuart and myself were impressed enough with the results that I’ll be offering these decals with any suitable hubs from now on.

In a lot of cases I don’t meet face-to-face with the people I build wheels for however in this case I had the pleasure of spending 4 days riding around the East Cape on a supported tour which Stuart orgainzed.

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