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Originally Posted by
ravenmore
Oh and the r-sys have a brutally stiff ride IMO. Topolino's turn the roughest roads into butter.
They may be great, but they are hideous.
Originally Posted by
rpeterson
You'd be paying more to have the slowest wheels out there with proprietary parts. Just build something better for half the price.
Intellectually I know this to be the sensible approach. Unfortunately I just really want something black and there are very few acceptably light non carbon choices.
Originally Posted by
nhluhr
Worst wheels imagineable.
They have terrible ride quality, inferior freehubs, absolutely horrid crosswind behavior, and to top it off, have a record of not being very durable. There's a reason they keep putting them on chainlove at blow-out prices.
Have you ridden them? Don't see why they'd be especially bad in crosswinds - the spokes don't add that much area.
Originally Posted by
rpeterson
Like what? that they're aerodynamically worse than basically everything out there? or that they don't have any user replaceable parts? or that they're more expensive than everything they compete against?
For the same price you can get something good like a powertap Zipp 101 wheelset, or for less than one of the wheels you can get a handbuilt Hed C2 or Kinlin xr-300 wheelset.
There just isn't any reason (other than thinking they're cool) to buy the Rsys.
Sadly, I know this. But still...
I'm a mechanic and I'm hoping I might get some at trade pricing at some point. We'll see. I also notice that the 2013 version is significantly lighter.