Do we really need weight reduction on a road unicycle?

Unicycles and Equipment
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What is the weight?
I do have somewhere a photo of a standard 36er wheel not sure if cranks etc are attached

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I need the weight of the standard, not the pic. I can add the part required to compare them

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Sorry I might have a photo of the weight of the orginal wheel somewhere on my phone.

What is the weight of your wheel out of interest

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2.25kg

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for comparison: about 3,3kg for a rather light tubeless aluminium rim 36er wheel.

a heavier 36er wheel should be over 4kg or 5kg.

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I haven’t weighed the wheel on my Oracle 36 but here is some data from UDC:

Nimbus Dominator 2 rim: 1133g
Nimbus Aluminum 125mm hub: 380g
Nightrider tire: 1900g
Foss tube: 239g
Spokes: ~350g

These add up to about 4kg.

One can easily swap to a Nightrider Lite tire for a 500g weight reduction.

That is insane. I wonder what the components are. Worths its own topic of course!

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Carbon rim
King George light tire
Ergal hub
TPU tube
UHMWPE spokes

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Is there a LITE variant of the King George tire or it’s just the original one (which weighs 1780g)?

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Yes. While Nimbus named their light tyre versions “lite” (Nightrider, TA), Quax named it “ultimate” (King Georg).

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Cool! At 1240g it indeed is the lightest 36" tire.

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