Originally Posted by
Dean V
If you get some good wheels like a 404 Firecrest you get the aero and quite light as well so the weight vs aero argument becomes a bit pointless.
You have the added benefit of a lighter wallet too. They appear to be directly focused on triathlons run on relatively flat courses, so obviously the weight is less of an issue. Faired wheels, what an advancement!
Originally Posted by
rekmeyata
I understand all of that, but if you are already running a Flo 60 on the front that has a pretty good wall anyways for the wind to hit, a 90 is not all that much more. And I assume the test was done where there was no cross wind, plus one of the tests were with 90's on both front and rear thus they didn't care in the test so why not, for test purposes, put the 90 on the front and the 60 on the rear? I would think there would be test data improvement vs 60 on the front and 90 on the rear.
They did run with the 90/disc so I'm assuming they are choosing combinations that somebody in the real world might actually use. And it wasn't really a test, it was just a math exercise.