Eh, if I'm gonna get some expensive ugly wheels I'd rather get some FC808s so they'd at least be fast.

I remember seeing a Wilier at an LBS with these on! I think a Scott FO1L was sporting them too! I swear the first time I saw MF's, I was really disgusted about how they look. Then after a while, I got used to them. It looked good on both the Scott and Wilier. The guy who owns the LBS says these wheels are awesome! He has it on his Oltre Nero. Supposedly, he knows the owner of MF when the guy used to live in the Bay Area.

http://www.bikerumor.com/2011/09/13/...r-road-wheels/

the clinchers are new.

fredtastic. The freds of the world who have money will all run out and get them while the Cat1 roadies will still be crit racing on alloy clinchers.

Love to see the first person to crack up a set of those in a race.

Posted from my phone sorry for the typo. My point.....pretty obvious, I think thy are ugly. You need me to further explain that too? I'm not speaking on their performance ability at all, just aesthetically.

Madfiber has an excellent crash replacement policy which makes the cost a little easier to stomach.

Spare me your pathetic mobile generation text excuses.

Great crash replacement policy, four year warranty. Can't beat that.

Look closer (and read this article). The braking surface is indeed carbon overlaid on the alloy "rim cap". The alloy backing serves as a conductive heatsink to the carbon and supposedly moves the heat away from any hotspots.

from the velonews page

Ass buckets stole it!
:D

If I spending $3000 on aero wheels, they better show me the aero benefits first. Dont give a crap about appearance - they could look like Fat Elvis's ass for all I care, provided they are fast.

Making a nice light wheel is nice, but the same price gets me FC404, FC808s or the new Enve 6.7s. I can buy current-gen Stingers and have money saved over. I'll happily take 200gm of weight and gain the known aero benefits of these wheels.

That being said, if someone gave them to me, I wouldnt turn them away either :)

Well, you have to admit it was a pretty easy one :lol:


First time I heard about them I was thinking: Aw man,Kellogs All-bran got involved into cycling!

Were I to get wheels like that, I'd go all-in and get some sub-900g-for-the-SET Reynolds RZR tubulars.

Why go half-assed with the weight-weenie bling?

You're comparing a Reynolds tubular to a Mad Fibre clincher. The Mad Fibre tubular is 1085 grams would be the proper comparison.

That's my way of speaking. I could have written "Monica Bellucci isn't that ugly" as well.

The Reynolds wheelset is 200g lighter than that Mad Fibre wheelset.

Thus, even the Mad Fibre tubular wheelset remains "half-assed weight-weenie bling".

So nice!

The hub construction looks sloppy. They are neat, but that's all I can say about them. I'll take Reynolds Forty-Six Tubulars for about half the price (on eBay of course).

oh, they finally made the clincher version?

if i had the money...do the clinchers also come without a weight limit?

No weight limit fatso.

This is the kind of technical insight we all come to BF for.

OK. I'd rather have an aluminum braking surface. Not that I have $3K for the wheels....

do they come with rim tape? i dont want the spokes breaking the tubes.

also, do these wills have heart and soul, or are they mass produced?

white industries makes bad hubs. thats why alex wheels doesnt use them.