Scribe Gravel Wide++ wheelset review

Cheap (for carbon) and with a super lightweight high quality build – there’s even a full lifetime crash replacement

Scribe Gravel Wide++
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Cycling Weekly Verdict

Scribe's Gravel Wide++ wheels combine an impressively light weight with a robust construction that's proved resilient to rock strikes. That'd be great just on its own, but Scribe has gone on to peg them at a relatively low price and offers a full lifetime crash replacement service. With the rigours and abuse gravel riding can subject a set of wheels to, it can be hard to justify getting a set of carbon hoops, but the Gravel Wide++ flip that equation entirely on its head.

Reasons to buy
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    Very lightweight

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    Robust build

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    Quality hubs

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    Crash replacement service

Reasons to avoid
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    Nothing!

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Scribe is a Belfast-based direct-sales outfit, part of that new breed of wheel brands – including the likes of Parcours and Hunt – that are significantly undercutting those more established manufacturer on price, whilst still promising top performance

The Scribe Gravel Wide++ sit firmly within that category of top-tier gravel wheels, with the focus being on keeping the weight low. At 1,306g for this set, they’d count as impressively light for even just use on the road – but built for the rigours of gravel, they’re really quite head turning

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Stefan Abram
Tech features editor

After winning the 2019 National Single-Speed Cross-Country Mountain Biking Championships and claiming the plushie unicorn (true story), Stefan swapped the flat-bars for drop-bars and has never looked back. 

Since then, he’s earnt his 2ⁿᵈ cat racing licence in his first season racing as a third, completed the South Downs Double in under 20 hours and Everested in under 12.

But his favourite rides are multiday bikepacking trips, with all the huge amount of cycling tech and long days spent exploring new roads and trails - as well as histories and cultures. Most recently, he’s spent two weeks riding from Budapest into the mountains of Slovakia

Height: 177cm

Weight: 67–69kg