Originally Posted by rpenmanparker

Sure, but it is not all honesty/dishonesty. There is normal manufacturing variation as discussed earlier in this thread. In any manufactured product it is normal and accepted practice to advertise only the average, saving the actual range of variation for a "Technical Specification Sheet". Most honest would be to quote the range over which one's wheels could be expected to vary, not only the average weight and certainly not only the lowest possible weight. I agree that the latter is dishonest.