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12-13-16 | 11:00 AM

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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

There are a number of take aways from that article.

"We've measured a 16% increase in wheel drag between a disc-braked wheelset and a standard wheelset"

"The best tyre we've found is the Continental GP4000S"

"The slower you are, the more important aero is."

"Weight is a secondary issue almost all the time."

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