Originally Posted by mcjimbosandwich

You are equating improvements to a wheelset with direct, measurable improvement in your speed, whereas improvements come in other ways, namely durability, ease of replacing damaged parts, etc.

I went from POS s!htmano 561 to a kinlin xr300 laced to white industry hubs with CX-ray spokes. The 561 goes out of true quite often, whereas the cx-ray only goes out of true when i really ding something (say a huge pothole at 28mph). Not to mention that it's hard to true the 561 b/c of the usage of internal nipples. As i said, the fact the kinlin front is about 120g light than the 561 is just icing.