With full disc wheels weighing more than other depths, curious how much of a factor is overall bike weight is when making wheel decisions.
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Re: Bike Weight [Keithovi]
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aero trumps weight... unless you are doing some major climbing.. 99.9% go full disc
Re: Bike Weight [Keithovi]
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Keithovi wrote:
With full disc wheels weighing more than other depths, curious how much of a factor is overall bike weight is when making wheel decisions.spntrxi wrote:
aero trumps weight... unless you are doing some major climbing.. 99.9% go full disc^^^^This.
Even on hilly courses, deeper is faster. The exceptions would be almost exclusively uphill courses (Alpe d'Huez traithlon), and races with almost no flat (I did an Alcatraz variant that biked through the Presidio where there was literally less than 1 flat mile for the entire bike, and the speed limiter on the descents was my bike handling not wheel drag [so no aero gain on the downhills to mitigate the climbs]).
If a race lets you run a disc, run a disc.
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