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Old 03-18-17, 03:46 AM
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Originally Posted by rubiksoval
You can go quicker with a shallow box section wheel with fast tires versus a 2800 dollar carbon wheel with slow tires (Zipps with gatorskins?!! )

Tires are more important than wheels. Fast tires on fast wheels, though; that's the cat's meow.
Strangely enough, that's a preferred combination among the tri folks around here. They're that petrified of getting flats, in spite of the fact that our roads are pretty decent and we have nothing like goat heads to be afraid of.
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