Originally Posted by Silvercivic27

While it's true that it's easier to accelerate the lighter wheel during that period that you are accelerating it, the aero wheel will be more efficient all the other times. The accelerations in crits, for example, tend to be short bursts most of the time, so you are definitely spending most of your time not accelerating too much. Therefore, it makes sense to me that even though the light wheel may conserve some energy during the actual accelerations, the aero wheel may still be the more efficient wheel overall since most of the time you are not accelerating. This is why a lot of us will just race deep tubulars because you get light weight and aero, so it eliminates the debate. Re: the draft, you will still be more efficient in a draft with aero wheels than on box wheels, maybe proportionately less, but I'll take anything I can get to be able to hold on!