If you’re after some wheels for the hill climb season, or if you just fancy something superlight, check out these ones from Parcours. 

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Built in conjunction with RyanBuildsWheels in Bristol, they comprise 20mm tubular rims laced to Tune Mig/Mag hubs with Sapim Super CX-Ray spokes — high end components, then.

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The front wheel is radially laced with 16 spokes while the rear has 10 spokes radially laced on the non-driveside and 10 laced two-cross on the driveside.

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The total wheelset weight is 900g.  

With the tubulars fitted, the front wheel weighs 615g while the rear is 743g (excluding skewers). That’s a total of just 1,358g.

Check out our review of the Parcours Grimpeur wheelset from a couple of years ago.

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Parcours says that it doesn’t intend to launch these wheels as a regular retail product at the moment, but if you did want a set then they’d come in at around £1,200-£1,300 — a whole lot less than something like the AX Lightness 25T, say, with a claimed wheelset weight of 790g.

Get in touch with Parcours and talk through the appropriate build specs, which will depend on the intended use.

www.parcours.cc