Road Cycling - Disc/Tri spoke wheels (or lack there of)

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Gustaf

01-29-04, 12:46 AM

Disc in the rear. Tri in the front seems to be the preferred setup for time trials.
However is there any benefit of running just a tri spoke in the front and normal spoked wheel in the back.

NZLcyclist

01-29-04, 01:04 AM

You would get a better benefit from a rear trispoke and a front spoked wheel. Also common is a disc/spoked combo in the same way.

Aero rear wheels make more of a diff for some reason, I think it's because the air is more turbulent back there and an aero wheel helps smooth things out

Brendon

Phatman

01-29-04, 11:54 AM

I think the reason is that cross-winds effect the front wheel more severly, and the more "aero" a wheel is, the more suseptable it is going to be to cross-winds.