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Old 05-03-22, 04:31 PM
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SoSmellyAir
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Can anyone else comment on the slight pulsing during initial braking which I experienced on my first ride? I read somewhere else (Trainer Road?) that this phenomenon is unavoidable on carbon fiber wheels because (1) a carbon fiber brake track surface is inherently grabbier and (2) a carbon fiber wheel, even if perfectly true, would have slight width variance around its perimeter because, unlike an alloy brake track, it cannot be further milled so that the thickness is perfectly even around its perimeter. These reasons make perfect sense to me, but I would like to know (a) what everyone's actual experience is, and (b) whether this phenomenon diminishes after I have used the wheels more.
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