About Lightweight

A company with history

The history of Lightweight wheels is closely linked to the best and most successful professional cyclists in the world. They were the ones who used the then revolutionary wheels at world championships and big tours and made them famous in the cycling scene. Lightweight wheels exist in their present form since 1995 and have been continuously developed in detail ever since. Since then Lightweiht stands for first-class product quality, superior wheels and German engineering. The most important product group of the premium brand Lightweight are the now highly specialized, handmade racing wheels made of carbon, which are considered the market reference worldwide in terms of technology, innovation and functionality. But also various components and accessories complete the Lightweight product range.

A real garage story: With wheels, baked in a Leberkäse oven from bulky waste, win the Tour de France.

That's our story

Handmade production

All Lightweight wheels are handmade in our manufactory in Friedrichshafen. Each wheel is therefore unique. This can lead to slight variations in the surface structure and colour. This is a characteristic quality feature of this particularly high-quality production method.

German Engineering

We stand above all for the attributes German engineering, Made in Germany and handicraft. Heinz Obermayer as inventor of the world's first carbon wheel, laid the foundation for the Lightweight wheels. Today our engineers are working on innovative, new products - Made in Friedrichshafen.

Pioneer of the bicycle industry Heinz Obermayer

Heinz Obermayer baked the first carbon wheel from bulky waste with the help of a Leberkäse oven. This pioneering spirit can be found in all our products and is still kept alive today. Our engineers are always on the lookout for new, innovative production techniques and processes to make our wheels even lighter, stiffer and yet comfortable.

Fibre composite Carbon

Our absolute passion is carbon and we are driven by the desire to get the best out of carbon. At Carbovation, we can draw on various experiences from the aerospace, industrial and medical sectors and incorporate them into the production of Lightweight wheels.

This is what makes our wheels

A riding experience in a class of its own

Our wheels are made of full carbon and not so-called hybrid models. This means that the spokes are also made of carbon, thus creating a wheel from a single mould. The wheel hardly twists at all, the Lightweight full carbon wheels bring performance to the point and ensure efficient power transmission without losses. Feel the indescribable riding feeling and how your power is burned into the asphalt.

The attention to detail

Our passion and love is for high-strength fibres, which in combination with epoxy resins remain ultra-light but develop enormous strength. We consistently rely on extremely high-quality materials and are always working on the best composition for our carbon wheels. Because we manufacture wheels from full carbon and do not rely on hybrid models, the result is a wheel that looks like a single piece. Thanks to the laminated carbon spokes, the wheel hardly warps at all and thus brings performance to the point.

Hand-made in Germany

The development of our wheels by hand is a unit of various components, which are carried out by experienced experts. Genuine unique pieces are created with a passion for perfection. This is how we can guarantee you the highest quality and offer you a first-class riding experience.