Originally Posted by
dvdslw
This is why I have yet to buy wheels. I get the bug and post here asking opinions which leads me back to the same conclusion I came to last year when I thought I wanted new wheels; They won't do anything other than look nice and possibly allow me to pick up a little bit of speed mostly due to their sound and feel which may make me pedal a tad bit harder. With that in mind I'm just going to wait until the time is right and either buy a set of aero wheels because I found a killer deal that I couldn't refuse, build a set of H+ Son's or Belgium+'s with my choice of goodies, or get a light factory built set like the Ardennes or Argents. In the mean time I do plan to rent a set of Assaults and/or Strikes just to get a feel for them and go from there, thanks!
What you're saying isn't entirely true. Aero wheels do give you a speed advantage. There are lots of tests with data that quantify that. Now if you mean really meaningful speed increase like 1 mph, the answer is no, wheels won't do that. One other thing renting wheels is a god idea. That will give you a god sense of how they feel and handle. But the speed improvements won't be something you can see or measure yourself. The differences are down to saving several seconds each mile and not minutes.