It may still seem like an astronomical price for many, but you can now buy a set of made-in-Germany carbon fibre wheels from sought-after specialists Lightweight for €3,500. That's a three-figure saving on their handbuilt range of wheels.
The new Lightweight Wegweiser wheels are still made in Friedrichshafen — where our team of reporters is currently combing the annual Eurobike show — in a similar way to the handmade wheels, but using machines to build the rims.
They're called Wegweiser, which means signpost in German, because it's intended to show the direction that the company is heading.
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A Lightweight spokesman told us that the rim is manufactured in one piece by a machine and the spokes are then glued to the rim via the little triangles you can see in the photo above. That makes manufacturing of the wheel more precise, and much less costly, but a little heavier. Around 80g more per pair, at under 1,450g.
The new Wegweiser wheels come in disc and rim brake versions, with a rim width of 24mm and a depth of 36mm. This is slightly wider than the handbuilt wheels, which come in 20mm and 22mm, and Lightweight says that this fits with the general trend of its customers wanting to run wider tyres.
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