Originally Posted by Smokehouse

...and your post is 100% why I rarely get into gear conversations.


Listen, I have a giant hill that is right outside my home...a hill I have to coast down, then ride back up every time I ride. A hill large enough that other local riders attempt to set speed records on it. I've taken it literally 100's of times...or more. The hill is so large, I refuse to push it with pedaling, I can easily coast down it at 40+ mph...if I were pedaling it would be higher (my max on it was 52 mph back before I stopped pushing things...). So...coasting down the same hill, 100s of times, on different wheels and different tires, I have a good set of data to go off of.

I'm not claiming anything is snake oil...or that some piece of gear made me a pro racer. I'm saying that the wheels I currently own ride quite a bit nicer than my stockers...which may have a whopping 300-500 miles on them tops.