Hunt XC Race Wheels -- TOO light?
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Hunt XC Race Wheels -- TOO light?
165 pounds, building a full-rigid bike for VERY easy singletrack (I'm 50 and very bad) plus fire trails and gravel. The Hunt XC Race wheels are dirt-cheap and CRAZY light. Do I need to worry about shattering spokes and bending rims and sounding like a steel drum?
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Your usage would seem to be the target demographicfor these wheels. I wouldnt take them to a jump park intentionally, but for use and weight, go for it
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I can't imagine that you'd wreck them if you slap on some fat tubeless tires inflated to a low but not too low pressure. I've had sub-1500g Hunt Aero Light Disc wheels to ride on crummy, potholed roads for a few years now and have never had a single issue with them, even when I rammed into some road furniture recently after forgetting how to pay attention to that kind of thing due to riding mostly indoors over the past year.
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Thank you!
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1500g is kinda light, not so light that you need to worry about them. Spokes don't 'shatter'.
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I've always considered 1500g to be a maximum weight. Like my old beater Helium's for everyday use. The light stuff was more 1100-1200.
Nowadays, between disc brakes and tubeless instead of tubulars wheels have gotten heavier. Even heavier when 29 wide became standard instead of 26 narrow.
I still don't think that 1500g is crazy light, just not heavy. They should hold up to your weight no problem.
Nowadays, between disc brakes and tubeless instead of tubulars wheels have gotten heavier. Even heavier when 29 wide became standard instead of 26 narrow.
I still don't think that 1500g is crazy light, just not heavy. They should hold up to your weight no problem.
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I have a ~1350g set of e13 XCX wheels on my Intense Sniper and I hammer them on pretty techy/rocky XC rides. I run 2.25" tire tubeless at relatively low pressure. I'm 185-190lbs ready to ride. No issues at all with the e13 wheels (even with a 24 spoke front wheel!), so I wouldn't be concerned about the Hunt wheels at your weight and for your intended use.
FWIW, I had a set of Hunt XC wide wheels on a Honzo hardtail, and they were great reliable wheels.
FWIW, I had a set of Hunt XC wide wheels on a Honzo hardtail, and they were great reliable wheels.