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Originally Posted by floridamtb

Interesting read from Road.cc. I live in pan flat south Florida and get 1 week of climbing in Virginia in the summer, this article makes me feel better about going with an alloy/aero wheel as opposed ot paying almost twice for full carbon. Once the daughter graduates college then maybe I'll go full carbon then, but for now it was a good tradeoff

Why riders like you need to go aero, and wheel weight doesn't matter ? and how the wind tunnel proves it | road.cc

Have you seen the bikes posted on this site?

Most have the bars as high as the seat and make no attempts to actually get in a more aero position.

Don't be fooled in to thinking they buy ultralight stuff to go faster, they buy it because it's cool and they like high end gear.

Case in point. "world's most aero road bike"....

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