Originally Posted by
celerystalksme
Duke and michael,
ahhh! alright...now i'm getting answers i can understand. so i will gain very little if any speed increases up hills and on flats. however...according to michael, i'll probably accelerate faster. gotcha.
wow...that sorta doesn't seem worth $2K. hmmm...i'll have to think about this before selling off more cameras and photography equipment to buy bike stuff! lol
Well, at least you'll
feel like you're accelerating faster. Whether it's a measurable and significant difference or not is debatable.
This is a perfect case of the
law of diminishing returns, as someone else pointed out above. You can spend 5g on wheels, but the question is, is it worth it? And the answer is, no. Unless you've got 1. more cash than you can handle, or 2. a need for better wheels (racing). Even then, if the motor isn't up to it, the wheels 99 times out of 100 aren't going to make you win.
Also, the Duke is correct re: aero rims, but the question is: do you need to spend $2000 on Zipps if you'll be happy with $700 handbuilts?
PS: if you have any medium-format rangefinders (Mamiya 6 or 7 or sim.) you'd like to get rid of, PM me.