They are mental wheels. I held a pair and they just feel unreal.

LifecycleUk in suffolk have a pair in their shop at the moment which they said they were putting onto a Storck Fascenario 0.7 I.S frameset in order to built up a 9lb build!

I'll be popping in a lot more over the next few months to see how the build is going!!

wow under 1kg wheelset is impressive. Yet one has to ask what's the point when most bikes ridden by pros have already reached the UCI weight limit of 15lbs...

crusader, it's cool to have a 9lbs bike for the sake of it but it's simply useless because illegal in any UCI race... So you might spend 15-20k on a 9lbs bike to show off if you like, yet it's "unrideable"

PissedOffCil - cheer up!

Of course £6,000 wheels don't have much relevance to you and me but someone will buy them and don't tell me there aren't people you can afford it if that's their thing.

The wheels are certainly not "unrideable" any more than a Lamborghini (which doesn't conform to any proper race formula) is "undriveable" and I certainly wouldn't pass up on the opportunity to buy one if I could afford it. Or, indeed, buy 1Kg bicycle wheels.

Meanwhile, I cheer myself up with the thought that Lamborghini drivers get stuck in traffic jams just like you and me and whoever gets to ride these wheels will be just as knackered on a nice big hill. Would be fun to try, though.

Hey Cil,

I'm purely interested in seeing the bike when its finished off. as much as i love riding bikes, i also have a love of all things lightweight and technical.

And really......how many of us that comment on components on websites actually ride uci events!??!

Nick, by unrideable, I meant that although extremely high performance, you will never be able to ride them in an extremeley high performance event (or any event for that matter as all races or at some point UCI conformant since national federations use UCI's rule book most of the time). The lamborghini analogy is good enough and it's the exact same reason why I won'T buy one, you will never be able to use it to it's capacity, so it's wasted money.

I don't care if people buy these wheels or any other thing for that matter, I just find it useless and pure poseurism. Not that my opinion matters or changes a darn thing...

Products like this are odd. To the enthusiastic amateur, like most of us on here, we can really benefit from wheels like this, but we'll never really do them justice. On the other hand, pro team riders who bust a gutt day in day out to be in the best shape of their lives probably will never be in a situation to run them unless of course the uci changes the rules on bike weight limits, or they build up the rest of the bike heavy to compensate, which seems pointless. A change of the rules maybe..?

Pros can benefit since rotational weight is more difficult to propel than stationary weight. I'd rather drop a 1lb on the wheels and have to put a 1lb somewhere on the bike that doesn't rotate.

actually, given the different impacts of rotational vs non-rot mass, it would actually make sense to use these and then build up frame mass to the UCI limit.

Well, a "lambo" or any prett fast car could always be taken to the rce track if you wanna "get the most out of it". :p

But yeah - i don't see why not have lighter wheels and put weight on else where on the bike. Seems like a reasonable thing.

Hehe we'll end up seeing big steel frames on the Tour with ultra lightweight wheels! Cool!!!!!!

@ jasondeslauriers

No i totally agree, but where would it all go? The frames are aready v light and don't need 1lb of EXTRA carbon to make them stiffer, or stronger.

They already don't need to run the lightest saddles/bars and stems as the wheels and frames/forks (the majority of weight on a bike) are already very light.

Maybe they could just run a Veloce or Tiagra groupset? :0) Or £20 bar and stem..? No this wouldn't happen either.