Originally Posted by
ypsetihw
Yoeleo's are going for about $350, shipped from China. These will likely be about $200, from a local buyer, a person in an unfortunate situation at my cycling gym, and I have already seen the wheels in person. They look like well build rims, spoke tension is relatively uniform. Hubs are not the smoothest ever but seem to have a lot of pawls, perhaps more than my current cheap Vueltas. Enve rim tape, apparent Enve parabolic shape. They actually look nice.
/tldr I have the opportunity to actually look at them in person, perhaps even ride them, so what should I be looking for as a red flag?
You cannot tell anything about a CF wheel just by looking about it other than if it is round/true and how even the spoke tension is. The problem with carbon fiber products is anyone can claim they are made out of anything...and it is impossible to prove them right short of destructively tearing a component apart.
The Amazing thing about CF is that skin deep it is possible to imitate/copy/fake a legit product and the fake can be good enough to fool retail sales reps. Except you destructively test that part, and it rapdily becomes evident that it isn't at all engineered the same as the actual article.
As always buyer beware.
I'll admit on my bike I have a 3T Aeronova look-a-like. I only used it after a full winter of trainer riding with out of the saddle sprints.