The Hunt 34 Aero Wide Disc SL alloy disc wheelset is currently discounted to £359.40 – almost £200 cheaper than when I reviewed it in 2024.
Hunt is offering a bumper 40% discount on the current full retail price of £599.
I considered the 34 Aero Wide Disc SL to be the best-value alloy wheelset I tested last year and the discounted price underlines that opinion.
What are you getting here?
You can read my full review of the wheelset here.
The 20mm internal rim width is modern for an alloy wheelset and well-suited to popular 25 and 28mm tyres. Externally, the rims measure 26mm at their widest.
Paired with the 34mm depth, you might expect the wheelset to carry excess weight, but at 1,572g with the Hunt-supplied lockrings, it’s competitively light.
Of the group of wheels I tested, you’d have to spend £760 (over twice the price) on the Roval Alpinist SLX Disc for anything lighter.
Hunt also says aerodynamics were a key focus for the wheelset at launch – these claims are extremely difficult to reliably quantify in the real world, but the overall sense of speed was impressive when I tested the wheelset.
The wheelset also uses the brand’s own pawl-based Sprint SL hubs with a fast 7.5-degree engagement-angle freehub.
Hunt has since made moves to introduce ratchet-based freehubs to its wheelsets (such as the 50 Carbon Disc), but unless the wasp-buzz sound puts you off – even from the 34 Aero Wide’s ‘low-noise’ version – there’s little reason to hesitate because of this.
Why spend more?
This was already a legitimate question before the existence of this discount, and one I interrogated after I’d performed my alloy wheels group test last year.
I’d found that alloy rims (this one included) could offer tangible aerodynamic advantages compared to a shallow box-section rim. The ride quality – so often posited as a key benefit of carbon wheels, alongside aerodynamics – shouldn’t be sniffed at either.
While the allure of carbon wheels remains (and Hunt has discounted a few of those too), my experience led me to question whether the carbon-for-summer, alloy-for-winter approach was really necessary.
The Hunt 34 Aero Wide Disc SL wheelset impressed in both of these respects.
And now, at its heavily reduced price, it’s nothing short of a barnstorming steal.
