Originally Posted by
Wildwood
Since this is a thread about weight. Weigh your wheels and tires. I’ll do the same with some 40 yo tubular wheels with 28 mm tires.
edit: ok, on kitchen scale they weigh 2644 gms. Front = 1058; rear = 1586.
Campy hubs (not Record), Campy skewers, Mavic330 rims, Veloflex Vlaanderen 28s. Spokes = 32 & butted. Rear wheel has Sunrace 6 speed freewheel.
Those certainly weigh less than any set of hybrid wheels and tires and tubes would and would be inappropriate for a hybrid, so it's unclear what the point of the comparison would be.
I once had a set of Hi-E tubular wheels that were insanely light. Ultra-thin-wall aluminum with reinforcements riveted at each spoke hole. Never liked them. Scary light. They made every bike I tried them on seem top-heavy.