Originally Posted by bbattle

Disk wheels are useful only in non-wind conditions: the track or short, flat time trial courses. And only if you plan on riding flat out. In city traffic, they would be worse than useless, a heavy anchor to drag from one intersection to the next.



In a time trial in the Coor's Classic back in the 80's, they used disk wheels on the FRONT, too. Dangerous. I've never seen that done since.