I discovered a hole through the casing in the tread of my front tire on the trike, so I dragged it inside to ready it for the H.O.T. this weekend.  After putting on my last Kojak, I decided to replace the rear tire as well.  Last year I won a set of tires for any of my cycles, so I got the Kojaks and a Marathon Supreme, 28-622, for the rear, as that was what I was running.  Mike had to order them, and a month later he called me and said he was sending two of them to me.  I thanked him and said I only needed one, but he insisted on sending me two, and didn't seem to be listening to my explanation for only wanting one.  Well, my original now has almost 7,000 miles on it, and is still good, but I have two unused ones, and I don't want them to get moldy!  So, I put a new one on the back.  Mark, I'll bring the old one tomorrow, so you can try it out and see if the ride on your new 700 is improved.
 
That gave me a chance to spec the rear wheel on my 700.  On the new 700 they put Velocity 28 spoke rims and a SRAM 11/34 or 36 cassette.  Mine is a nameless, non-welded rim, 32 spoke, on a 105 hub, with what looks like a rather robust LX 11/32 cassette.  With skewer, the whole thing weighs about 1510 grams.  Allowing for the skewer and cassette, that's around an 1100 gram wheel.  The tire adds 310 grams and a standard tube about 90.  A good aero wheel with an expensive cassette would take off maybe 300 grams, or about two-thirds of a pound.  A racing tire, another 100 grams.  That's nice, but it doesn't get a 700 under 30 pounds!  This exercise is for all you weight wienies out there.  

Quote from johnnybent on Feb 19^th, 2014, 8:08pm:

 
Hey, knock it off.  

Paul, it calculates out to just under 13.5 inches.  A quick measurement seems to verify that.