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01-17-13 | 09:23 AM

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merlinextraligh

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Originally Posted by cplager

Are the hubs the same (or equivalent(ish)) on the different wheels? And same tires and pressures?

I have no qualms about the placebo effect, I'm just not rich enough to want to use it.

If nothing else, you could send me the wheels and I'll do a blind test...

*cough* *cough*

Getting back to our regularly scheduled program...

Couple of sets of Zipp hubs, one white industries, one dura ace, one ultegra, and similar tires and same air pressure. So I don't think those are meaningful differences.

Type of rim, rim depth, spoke count would likely all have some effect independent of weight.

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