Something that is mid pack like NovaRide. A Ceramic Speed is obviously the most name recognized OSPW and beyond the miniscule watt savings you are just buying it because it says Ceramic Speed. Kogel makes good looking OSPW that are cheaper, but IMO for $350 before discount code the NovaRide CCD EVO will give all the bling you need while providing you those marginal gains, but not having to buy a cheap Alliexpress OSPW.

IMO the better play is just buying oversized ceramic jockey wheels. Much cheaper with basically the same benefits and stupid easy to install. I did BBInfinite oversized jockey wheels for SRAM at $130 shipped with a $20 coupon. No need for a new chain since it works as long as your chain was properly sized from the start

I put those BBInfiniti jockey wheels on a 11-speed bike that is now gone. I agree, much cheaper and no downsides. May end up doing the same one day.

Gilberto Simoni had a couple of all-pink bikes built up for the closing stages of one of his Giro wins. A bike shop in Little Rock, where I used to live, had one of these pink pair up on the wall (the shop owner was a bit of a collector) - except that it’s way too small, I’d have no problem riding that pink bike - anyone had a problem with that (and certainly in Arkansas, there would be some who would), they could kiss my arse 🙄

In the 80s, as you know, fluorescent colors were the rage. Hot pink, green, green/yellow were everywhere. My Fondriest from the era wears all three plus bright blue. During that time I had a T-Mobile jersey with a matching hot pink zebra stripe insert on the sides of my shorts. Quite colorful.

The only legit question here is, "does a flat top chain make you faster?"

I am going to say "yes" because a guy I know has one and he is definitely faster than me. Has to be the chain, what else could it be?

Prolly hot waxes that chain.

If he both had a flat top chain and waxed it he'd get accused of doping

If you're not cheatin you're only cheatin yourself.

Is Bullseye still in business? They used to be the goto for aftermarket bling pulleys.

I looked into this recently and went with SPIREXBIKE — mainly liked the clean metal look, not plasticky like some others. Didn’t expect much performance gain, but it’s quieter than I thought and pretty light (around 70g).Nothing fancy, just looks good, works fine, and the price was fair.

Have thought, with no direct proof, that the increased size of the wheels, cage and additional chain would create more aero drag, thus negating the marginal gain.

Then you get to spend even more money for the additional blingy aero fairing. And for yet another paltry $200, you can get a "UFO Factory optimized" 12 speed chain.

https://ceramicspeed.com/products/os...mano-9250-8150