On 3/4/2019 6:13 PM, AMuzi wrote:
On 3/4/2019 4:58 PM, John B. Slocomb wrote:

Yesterday I had the front wheels off two bicycles and on impulse I
weighed them. One bike front wheel with 23mm tire and skewer, complete
as installed on the bike weighed 2.9Kg and the second bike wheel,
again complete as installed, weighed 2.8Kg. The bikes are both steel
frame road bike, not racing bikes and the wheels are typical aluminum
rims.

Really? 2.8 kg is over 6 pounds. Can that be right?


Would this be a typical wheel weight? Heavy? Light?

Sounds typical.

Two road front wheels w/rubber & skewer shown on scale he
http://www.yellowjersey.org/frontwheel.html

SuperChampion Record w/300g tubular 2lb 7.5oz
Velocity Aerohead w/Michelin Lithion 2lb 12 oz

John was talking kilograms, not pounds. His 2.8 kg sounds awfully heavy.

I just weighed my front wheel twice, using two different scales. The
small spring scale said 1500 grams. The digital scale said 1540 grams.
That's about 3.3 pounds.

That's a Sun CR-18 rim, Pasela 28mm tire, 36 spokes, SunTour hub and
skewer. It's a touring wheel.

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- Frank Krygowski