Originally Posted by
IAmCosmo
I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but at 300# are you going to see the benefit of carbon wheels? It's common knowledge that the faster you go, the more benefit you see from carbon wheels.
For the record, you're talking about aerodynamic wheels, not carbon ones. Air resistance goes up with the cube of your speed, so the faster you're going, the bigger the dividend aerodynamics plays. You can make an aero shape out of any material (carbon, metal, wood, ...), and you can make light-weight but not very aero wheels out of carbon fiber. People do. Zipp's 202s buy very little in the way of air resistance, but weigh a feather.