Description
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.
Features
Specs
- Lightest wheelset in DUKE's Elite road range — from 1,068g the pair (Mad Max build)
- 25mm internal width optimized for 28–30mm tires
- DRC vibration damping and Offset asymmetric lacing for comfort and balanced spoke tension
- SLR5 construction: Toray T1100 carbon, molded SpokeCore spoke holes, clearcoat-free VFP finish
| Build |
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| Hub options | Mad Max 3 (black, DUKE MADMAX3 CL SP) / Tune Nano (silver) |
| Freehub options | XDR / HG11 / N3W |
| Spokes | Sapim CX-Ray (black on Mad Max, silver on Tune Nano) |
| Wheelset weight | From 1,068g (Mad Max build, pair) |
| Rim |
|---|
| Depth | 30mm |
| Internal width | 25mm |
| Drilling | 24h front and rear |
| Rim design | Hooked, tubeless ready; Offset asymmetric lacing |
| Tires |
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| Optimal tire width | 28–30mm |
| Compatible tire width | 28mm and wider |
| Construction |
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| Carbon | Toray T1100, SLR5 process, aerospace-grade resin |
| Spoke interface | SpokeCore molded spoke holes (no drilling) |
| Finish | VFP clearcoat-free, naturally glossy |
| Technologies | DRC vibration damping, Offset asymmetric lacing |
| Included | Rim tape and valves fitted, spare spokes and nipples, assembly certificate |
| Warranty | Lifetime transferable crash-replacement program on DUKE carbon rims |
| Origin | Hand-built in Vendée, France |
