Jeff
Vintage rims were as light as 220g (Scheeren wood-filled) and silk
tires for "special events" were as light as 150g. The bare wheels on my
1980 Raleigh http://www.mookietwoh.com/
Comparing complete wheels, them there 24/28hole Fiamme Ergals w/ light silks and a Campagnolo 6sp freewheel are 250g lighter than my Zipp 404s w/ Vittoria CXs and a ti record 10 cassette.
On the other hand, thanks to those UCI retro-grouches we see that
modern wheels contribute to at least a 5 kph advantage :
Chris Boardman going 49.441km
http://www.lookcycle.fr/
jack "much lighter in the 80s" bissell tucson
On Wednesday, May 12, 2004, at 10:16 AM, Jeff Stuecheli wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Been lurking on the "yesterdays equipment in modern races" topic, and
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> seen several references to light weight wheels of the era being just as
> light as modern carbon rim jobs.
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> Which wheels/rims were these? How much did they weight? How well did
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> For comparison, my zipp 404 weigh in at 1283 grams for the set (365 gm
> rims). The rim depth is pretty deep at 58mm. They hold up and ride
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> well (I am ~187 pounds). Cost is $1300 bucks for the set. The
> shallow rim
> zipp 202 set is 1040 gms. Braking is sub-par on the carbon rims (you
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> brake in racing, or you go off the side like Jan Ulrich a few years
> back...).
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> Jeff Stuecheli
> Austin, TX