I’ve got some £1300+ (Giant retail price, not what I paid) wheels…. and some £100 wheels
TBH I haven’t weighed the £100** ones but they are not significantly* lighter than the £100 ones …
*by which I mean you can easily make the carbon ones heavier by tyre choice alone!
**superstar 50% on already discounted new years eve
I got the carbon wheels along with a used bike and paid less than the retail price of the front wheel for the whole bike… in comparison to the stock wheels on my T-130 with stock tyres the £100 ones are way lighter (even with a 2.4 Hans Dampf)
The £100 were a bit on New Years Eve Madness (I think I purchased about 23:00) … TBH I never worked out where the weight is in the WTS / Whyte hubs / tyres…. they just felt really heavy so I was using the carbon ones…. and more concerned I’d break something I couldn’t really afford to replace…
The Carbon P-TRX’s are better in every way …..especially ride quality and stiffness (using the same tyres) but they aren’t that much lighter…
I’d probably put money into spokes and hubs BEFORE rims if I was that bothered.