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Old 05-28-13, 02:03 PM
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This is why we don't discuss aero on roadie forums.
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Originally Posted by Bob Dopolina
30mm is too shallow to really be an aero wheel and 1500g is too heavy to be a climbing wheel. So what is it?
A $500 aluminum clincher that is about as light and about as aero as all the other $500 medium depth aluminum clinchers.

Hopefully they have good builders.
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If they didn't highlight climbing for the 30, they'd have to think of another reason to get people to buy it. And that'd be something like, like Flo fo' the po'.
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Originally Posted by canam73
A $500 aluminum clincher that is about as light and about as aero as all the other $500 medium depth aluminum clinchers.

Hopefully they have good builders.
Flo has no plans to produce tubulars, ever.
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
Flo has no plans to produce tubulars, ever.
Who said anything about tubulars?
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Originally Posted by canam73
Who said anything about tubulars?
Apparently I'm slydexic; I seriously thought you said "hopefully they have good tubulars". Wow.
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Originally Posted by canam73
A $500 aluminum clincher that is about as light and about as aero as all the other $500 medium depth aluminum clinchers.

Hopefully they have good builders.
I thought this was a carbon wheel? Alloy I understand but it still isn't a climbing wheel.
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
This is why we don't discuss aero on roadie forums.
We don't?

And what is your point?
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Originally Posted by Bob Dopolina
We don't?

And what is your point?
When people decide to ignore wind tunnel data, there isn't a meaningful conversation to have. That really addresses both of your questions, and on that, I'm going to stop talking the aeroness of these on this thread.
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I thought this was a carbon wheel? Alloy I understand but it still isn't a climbing wheel.
Nope, this really appears to be a Zip 101 fighter.
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In looking more closely at the Flo 30, what turns me off is the braking angle. If I want to swap with another wheelset, it had better be a Flo or I will have to readjust the brake pads.
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Originally Posted by canam73
Nope, this really appears to be a Zip 101 fighter.
Ah. I poked around on their site but couldn't find tech data on this wheel. In all honesty I didn't look really hard, just from their products page.

That makes more sense but its still not a climbing wheel.
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Originally Posted by xfimpg
In looking more closely at the Flo 30, what turns me off is the braking angle. If I want to swap with another wheelset, it had better be a Flo or I will have to readjust the brake pads.
Their explanation is to go the other way - a shallow (but still somewhat aero) training wheel that doesn't require adjustment when going to their deep wheels.
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