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Hed Vanquish vs Ardennes comparo
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I have a Parlee TTiR with Hed Ardennes wheels rolling on 700x26 Specialized Turbos as well as Hed Vanquish 4/8's on 700x28 Specialized Turbos.
I was curious to see how much "faster" the deeper profile Vanquishes are.
I have a 20 minute FTP route I do:
https://www.strava.com/segments/26066512

Results of 9 attempts are below:
Date Time Wheelset 15-Oct 19:35 Ardennes 16-Oct 19:21 Vanquish 4/8 28-Nov 20:35 Ardennes 19-Dec 20:07 Ardennes 19-Dec 20:43 Ardennes 1-Jan 20:04 Ardennes 17-Jan 21:04 Ardennes 14-Mar 19:51 Ardennes 18-Apr 18:40 Vanquish 4/8

The results are impressive. The Vanquishes average 6.3% faster (19:00 vs 20:17) over 7.9 miles.
Conceptually, this would save over 51 seconds on an Oly Tri course.

Yeah, yeah there are a ton of variables, but interesting none the less.
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Re: Hed Vanquish vs Ardennes comparo [twain] [ In reply to ]
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I switched onto a Vanquish disc from a V8 on Saturday. I was 09:04 and 14:02 faster over the same 100 mile course compared to the 2 weeks before. Very similar wind.

Andy Tetmeyer (I work at HED)

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andy tetmeyer wrote:
I switched onto a Vanquish disc from a V8 on Saturday. I was 09:04 and 14:02 faster over the same 100 mile course compared to the 2 weeks before. Very similar wind.
14 minutes faster?! Amazing.
What were you using in the front? Vanquish 6?
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Re: Hed Vanquish vs Ardennes comparo [twain] [ In reply to ]
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Yes, V6 front.
Wind was most similar on the 9 minute difference day. On the slowest day I had a wind shell on out and back and a little more headwind on the way out, so there was some difference there.

Andy Tetmeyer (I work at HED)

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Re: Hed Vanquish vs Ardennes comparo [twain] [ In reply to ]
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twain wrote:
I have a Parlee TTiR with Hed Ardennes wheels rolling on 700x26 Specialized Turbos as well as Hed Vanquish 4/8's on 700x28 Specialized Turbos.
I was curious to see how much "faster" the deeper profile Vanquishes are.
I have a 20 minute FTP route I do:
https://www.strava.com/segments/26066512

Results of 9 attempts are below:
Date Time Wheelset 15-Oct 19:35 Ardennes 16-Oct 19:21 Vanquish 4/8 28-Nov 20:35 Ardennes 19-Dec 20:07 Ardennes 19-Dec 20:43 Ardennes 1-Jan 20:04 Ardennes 17-Jan 21:04 Ardennes 14-Mar 19:51 Ardennes 18-Apr 18:40 Vanquish 4/8

The results are impressive. The Vanquishes average 6.3% faster (19:00 vs 20:17) over 7.9 miles.
Conceptually, this would save over 51 seconds on an Oly Tri course.

Yeah, yeah there are a ton of variables, but interesting none the less.

Correcting my own post. The savings over 8 miles was 67 seconds. So over an Oly Course, this could be 3:21 faster!
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Re: Hed Vanquish vs Ardennes comparo [twain] [ In reply to ]
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I thought I was missing something in your math. Guess I was not.

Andy Tetmeyer (I work at HED)

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