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- Price: £409.99 / €429 / $592
- Weight as measured: 1776g/62.6oz claimed, measured 1810g/63.8oz (tape no valves)
- Depth: 30mm
- Width: 24.75mm external, 19.9mm internal
- Tubeless: Yes
- Hookless: No
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Aero performance is the name of the game with these rims, as it is with all of the best road bike wheels on the market nowadays, and they are not bad. The widths are narrow by today’s standards, but they still roll well across flat and minimally rolling terrain.
The downside of these wheels is the weight. They are no featherweight, but in the rain they have a bad habit of holding water in the rim which makes them even more cumbersome. This can also result in some puddles when you get home.
However for the cost, the performance is not at all bad, and in some ways belies the low price making them an impressive value set of wheels.
Design and specifications
Being the budget offering in DT Swiss’ aero line-up, the A 1800 utilises an aluminium rim, rather than the carbon used in the high performing ARC Dicut 1400 models and up. It is still tubeless, but uses hooked rims, or ‘crotchet tubeless’ as this is called. The rim itself is only available in this 30mm depth, whereas higher end models in this range come with different depth offerings. The rim has a 19.9mm internal width, and 24.75mm external. DT Swiss states that it is designed to be used with the 26mm Continental Aero 111 front tyre and 28mm GP5000 S TR rear for the WTS (Wheel Tyre System) and maximum aero optimisation.
Moving down from the rim, the wheels use DT Aero comp wide straightpull spokes. These are arranged in a 2-cross pattern with 24 front and rear in a 1:1 ratio split. Essentially, 12 spokes either side.
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