LB Textile spokes photos - for WG55 wheels
A$2399.00
The textile spoke option available for Light Bicycle WG55
Performance & Ride Characteristics
Vibration Damping: These textile elements provide 200% more vibration damping compared to steel. They heavily absorb high-frequency road buzz and blunt structural impacts across rough gravel.
Tensile Strength: They feature a strength-to-weight ratio that is 12 times higher than steel. They are highly resilient against trail debris, snapping, or fatigue failures over extended use.
Compliance vs Stiffness: While highly compliant vertically to smoothen bumpy terrain, they retain excellent lateral stiffness and acceleration snappiness when brought up to full, settled tension.
Speed on gravel isn't just about aerodynamics. It's about what you can sustain.
The Grav WG55 was engineered around a simple truth: a smoother ride is a faster ride. Its wide internal and external rim profile creates a stable, expansive platform for larger gravel tires — taming the irregular airflow at the rim-tire interface that steals speed from conventional pairings. But where most aero wheels stop at the rim, the Grav WG55 goes further. Paired with Light Bicycle's proprietary textile spokes, the Grav WG55 introduces a level of vibration damping that alloy and carbon spokes simply cannot replicate. The relentless buzz of rough gravel — the energy that fatigues your hands, drains your legs and forces you to back off — is absorbed before it reaches you. What remains is a composed, fluid ride that lets you hold speed deeper into the distance.
At 55mm deep, the aero gains are real and measurable. This is one of the fastest gravel wheels on the market — not just on smooth tarmac connectors, but where it matters most: the rough stuff everyone else slows down for.
And it's built to last. The Grav WG55 has passed an in-house impact test of 105J — more than double the UCI standard of 40J — so the confidence you feel on the descents is backed by engineering you can trust.
Smooth is fast. The Grav WG55 is proof.