Wheels

[Bomble]

Has anyone swapped their wheels or weighed the standard wheels?
Was looking at Blueflow wheels and this is on their website, seems a huge weight loss.
“For comparrison, the standard 27.5 wheelset on one of our customers £5100 Whyte E-160 S weighed his wheels at 3100g, compared to the same width and stiffer 27.5 BF/eB 37/31s he replaced them with at 1850g. 1.25KG of rotating mass saved!”

 

[Gary]

Someone forgot to remove their cassette and rotors ?

 

[Jamze]

Prob the first thing I'd spend money on TBH if I was upgrading anything. Spendy though, £850+?

Someone on here?

 

[Clubby]

Did some weighing but with tyres/rotor/cassette attached. Part way down this page.

Lightening up an ebike

I swapped out my DHR/Assagai mix for Mavic Quests yesterday and saved 1.1kg. I will see how they do on the weekend. Im 50/50 on this being a good idea.

www.emtbforums.com

Found my front wheel pretty comparable to hope/ wtb i25 combo. Rear, most of difference was in the cassettes. With a bit of maths I’m sure you could figure out wheel weight by taking off the tyres I was using.

Can’t imagine they are significantly heavier than those carbon wheels mentioned.

Couldn’t honestly tell much difference over the course of a few rides apart front the narrower, slightly less sticky tyres rolled better when coasting. Unsurprising really.

Have read that it’s the extra stiffness of carbon wheels that feel better on heavier ebikes than any weight saving. At 1850g those carbon wheels are particularly light any way. Even Santa Cruz reserve carbon rims are only 20-30g lighter than the wtb alloy ones.

 

[Bomble]

Prob the first thing I'd spend money on TBH if I was upgrading anything. Spendy though, £850+?

Someone on here?

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That belongs to d4ve86 and is the bike mentioned on the blue flow site. I have pm’d him for his thoughts

 

[Bomble]

Did some weighing but with tyres/rotor/cassette attached. Part way down this page.

Lightening up an ebike

I swapped out my DHR/Assagai mix for Mavic Quests yesterday and saved 1.1kg. I will see how they do on the weekend. Im 50/50 on this being a good idea.

www.emtbforums.com

Found my front wheel pretty comparable to hope/ wtb i25 combo. Rear, most of difference was in the cassettes. With a bit of maths I’m sure you could figure out wheel weight by taking off the tyres I was using.

Can’t imagine they are significantly heavier than those carbon wheels mentioned.

Couldn’t honestly tell much difference over the course of a few rides apart front the narrower, slightly less sticky tyres rolled better when coasting. Unsurprising really.

Have read that it’s the extra stiffness of carbon wheels that feel better on heavier ebikes than any weight saving. At 1850g those carbon wheels are particularly light any way. Even Santa Cruz reserve carbon rims are only 20-30g lighter than the wtb alloy ones.

Yeah I’ve read a few reports saying it’s not particularly the weight difference but how it rides.

 

[nathdogg]

I upgraded mine for some weareone composites unions with I9 hydras and they weigh 1840 g.

The biggest upgrade is in how they ride. They feel more lively.

For me I would definately upgrade the wheels again

 

[d4ve86]

That belongs to d4ve86 and is the bike mentioned on the blue flow site. I have pm’d him for his thoughts

The orange bike is not mine, I have a 2020 E150

The wheels are great as per PM