Originally Posted by
rpenmanparker
I think you are right to say you don't know now. Wouldn't a conclusion about still wanting lighter weight be premature. You haven't tested the light wheels Jude is likely planning for you. You may find that lighter just can't perform as well as heavier, or maybe it can. Too early to say. I think you really have to leave such questions put by contributors to the forum unanswered for now in the spirit of the experiment. BTW, just so you know, I am a wheel weight weenie. I build for myself and ride 1,250 gram wheels exclusively. So I am not saying go heavier, but rather wait until it is over. I want to know the final conclusion too! But while you are thinking all this over, would you still be partial to light wheels if you learned you could actually feel an unacttractive difference in them? Hmmm.
Robert
As of now, I would still be partial to lightweight wheels because I have ingrained it into my head that I have to get my bike as light as possible as long as it isn't creating sub par results. I have learned that my boyds have more flex than I thought, but I still love them. They are still a good wheelset in my mind. I will have to see how these other demo wheels feel and what I learn from them. I will still want to have lightweight wheels but I will have to find that medium where I have the performance I want along with a weight that gives me peace of mind. The problem I see right now is that my knowledge is being turned upside down, so I dont know exactly what my expectations should be. If my next demo set is lighter than my 1st demo set AND gives me the performance benefits I have felt with my first set, it will give me a better idea of what to aim towards.
I'm finding that I am already fighting myself with not looking these wheel up to find out the weight. No need to talk me out of it, because I wont. I will respect the process. But it is difficult, especially since my gut was telling me that they felt so much heavier than a couple of you were thinking. (Which I can now see that maybe to much conversation about this could derail my thoughts). I'm hoping to get in 2 or 3 more good rides on these wheels. My hopes are that I will have gotten used to the small difference in weight and it would not play such a deciding factor in my overall thoughts in this wheel. We will see.