DUKE Strada 30 Wheelset

Climbing wheels have always involved a bargain: give up comfort, durability, or a month's rent to save grams. The Strada 30 is DUKE's refusal to sign that deal. The lightest wheelset in the French builder's Elite road range — 1,068 grams the pair in the Mad Max build — it's a 30mm-deep rim in Toray T1100 carbon, laid up with DUKE's SLR5 process and laced by hand, one wheel at a time, in their Vendée workshop. What separates it from other featherweights is how deliberately the stiffness is tuned. The 25mm internal width is shaped around a 28–30mm tire, DRC damping filters the road buzz that usually comes free with ultralight rims, and DUKE's Offset asymmetric lacing balances spoke tension side to side — better lateral stiffness, longer wheel life, no added weight. The result climbs like a wheel this light should and descends like one that isn't. Construction is the full DUKE playbook: SpokeCore molds every spoke hole into the layup rather than drilling cured carbon, and the VFP finish skips clearcoat entirely — lighter, more scratch-resistant, cleaner to produce. Hooked and tubeless-ready, each set arrives taped and valved with spare spokes, nipples, and a build certificate, and every DUKE carbon rim carries a lifetime, transferable crash-replacement program. We build these with DUKE's own Mad Max 3 hubs with black Sapim spokes, or Tune's Nano hubs in silver with silver spokes, and your choice of XDR, HG11, or N3W freehub. If you're looking for a custom build around these rims — spoke counts, decals, a hub we don't list — reach out for a quote.