The Lightweight Pfadfinder Evo Schwarz Edition disc brake carbon wheels for riding gravel and rougher roads offer an intoxicating mix of elite performance, low weight, extreme durability, and utter gorgeousness.

If you are the type of gravel rider who wants to run mountain bike tires on 650b wheels, then you probably will not be considering these Lightweights. But if you gravitate more towards the type of mix surface rides that have a lot of tarmac sections, climbing, and even exposed blustery wind sections, then the Pfadfinder Evo Schwarz Edition may be the luxury wheelset you need to enhance up your gravel grinding life.

Lightweight wheels can be polarizing. A lot of that comes from the undeniable fact that they are pretty pricey. But then again, if you are lucky enough to have the chance to ride a pair, then the cost issue quickly falls away from your mind. That is even more true when it comes to the Schwarz Edition of the wheels. That means that you not only get all the usual wonders of the Lightweight design and development, but you get CeramicSpeed bearings in the hubs, as well as the undeniably stealth black on black graphics.

It’s worthwhile to try to decipher the rest of the name of these wheels because it will give you a good idea of what you are dealing with. Pfadfinder literally means <pathfinder> in German and more ubiquitously is what boy and girl scouts are called in Germany. And no matter which definition you feel like applying, the Pfadfinder Evo carbon wheels allow you to find new paths and scout undiscovered routes without having to worry about weighing you down in spite of how durable and indestructible they are. The rims have an internal rim width of 18.2mm and an external to 24mm, which will accommodate everything from 23mm to 40mm tires. The clincher rims can also accommodate tubeless tire technology, which will be ideal for off road riding at a lower psi.

The Evo in the name means that they have received a seriously durable carbon layup that uses special carbon fiber reinforced polymer fibers which enhance the durability as well as the comfort levels. The rims have 20 spokes front and back that are hand-bonded to the rims that have been laid-up by machine. This process removes a little of the hands-on aspect, which allows them to keep the price slightly lower but enhances the extreme precision with which they can be manufactured to extremely small tolerances.

For the hubs, Lightweight use what they call a Pentagon hub, which as the name implies, has five sides into which the correspondingly shapes internals fit. This locks everything neatly and securely into the hub shell, which will prevent any potential slippage even under the heaviest of braking. And if that doesn’t sound like much, it is huge, since when your internals get overheated and start moving around inside the hub is when you get catastrophic disc brake failure. On the rear hub, they pair the Pentagon with DT Swiss 240s which are top quality with the advantage of making it easy to choose hub bodies for Campagnolo, Shimano or SRAM.

When you are looking for the ultimate race day wheel for your gravel exploits or even cyclocross events, the Lightweight Pfadfinder Evo Schwarz Edition disc brake carbon wheels offer an elite level of performance on all types of gravel paths and rough roads.