lightweight cross disk wheels for tcx

davidtaylforth – Member

Pacenti’s new rim is worth a look http://www.justridingalong.com/sl25-disk-rim.html

There’s a brief review of them here;

Getting dirty with the new Pacenti SL 25

I just got a set of the Pacenti SL25s, some Novatec 771/2s, and D-Lights. Haven’t built them up yet, but I’ll weight all the parts later.

Those sl25 rims do look good and get a good review above. They seem to fit the criteria and have a deep section to them like the grails. Very interested in what weight they come in at.

Pacenti SL25 – 434g
Novatec 771/2 – 162g/279g
64 Sapim D-light – 337g
Brass nips are 62g, Alu are 20g
18mm Vittoria rim strips are 20g each

@Steve

I know JRA are about to, or have already, doing a wheelset which consists of the Pacenti SL25, D-Light spokes and their own Jawbone hubs.The hubs are rebranded Bitex*, which, According to JRA, are better quality than the similar Novatecs when tested.** Price is around £380.

I was going to pick some up, buy I inadvertently spunked my parts budget on some hydros.

*MTF15/20 – 3 in 1 Disc Front Hub / MTR12 – 3 in 1 Disc Rear Hub

**This may be subjective as they are selling them.

I know it’s Superstar, but I’ve been very happy with my Pacenti CL25 on Tesla wheels. (I paid £199 on offer – normally £269)
There’s 30% off custom wheel builds today-only, so it might work out similar price.

For example – I just used their generator to specify:

Stans Iron Cross Rim – CX Disc x 2
700C STANS IRON CROSS 32H
Tesla EVO Front Hub x 1
Tesla EVO Front Hub Body x 1
TESLA EVO F BLACK 32H
Tesla Evo Front Adaptor x 1
Tesla EVO Front QR
Tesla EVO Rear Hub x 1
Tesla Evo Rear Adaptor x 1
TESLA EVO REAR QR
Tesla EVO Rear Body x 1
TESLA EVO R BLACK
Tesla Evo Freehub x 1
TESLA EVO ALLOY FREEHUB
Sapim CX-Ray – Bladed Black x 2
SAPIM CX-RAY – Bladed BLACK
Sapim Brass Nipples x 2
BRASS

Came out at £311.49 which sounded cheap to me.

I think DT Swiss 350 hubs were a similar hub price too.
Edit: £328.99 for Stans Iron Cross, CX-rays on DT 350 hubs I thought was a bargain.

Just had a set built up by m pollard at spokesman wheels – novatech hubs sapim Cxray spokes and stans alpha 400 rims just over 1500g for pair. Great set of wheels.

If you want ready built the Planet X carbon 38mm cross wheels are listed at 1440g

Aren’t the Planet X ones tubs bigdawg?

yes they are – my bad, but tbh I was going to buy them but couldnt find one review on them

OK I think I have made my decision for my set of wheels for my tcx slr 1 – Pacenti SL 25 rims, cx ray spokes and Hope pro 2 evo hubs. All in black. Unless anyone has any other recommendations . I have estimated the weight of this set but does anyone know what the actual weight will be ?

Have you built those wheels now Steve73? I’m looking at a similar spec for my cross bike. What spoke count did you go for? 28/28?

Be interested to read how you guys get on with the Pacenti SL25’s they are currently on my shopping list thinking of what to improve on my Niner RLT, and some of those on red hope hubs is very much on my mind.

+1 for Pacenti SL25 interest. They’re wider, deeper, and lighter than Stans Grails somehow?! Seems a no brainer to me