I have the Roval 321 Disc today and think its awesome. However, my sponsor in Norway is distributor of HED and want me to ride a HED RCD Pro. A great wheel for sure but is there any potential performance gain for the HED RCD Pro? The increase weight (1135g compared to 1020g for the Roval disc) is only 9 sec slower in a course like Norseman, but still.
I have the Roval 321 Disc today and think its awesome. However, my sponsor in Norway is distributor of HED and want me to ride a HED RCD Pro. A great wheel for sure but is there any potential performance gain for the HED RCD Pro? The increase weight (1135g compared to 1020g for the Roval disc) is only 9 sec slower in a course like Norseman, but still.
Honor your contract and ride the HED or pay off your sponsor and ride whatever you fancy. The choices to be made should be no different even if the sponsored wheel were 500 g heavier and 2 minutes slower.
I have the Roval 321 Disc today and think its awesome. However, my sponsor in Norway is distributor of HED and want me to ride a HED RCD Pro. A great wheel for sure but is there any potential performance gain for the HED RCD Pro? The increase weight (1135g compared to 1020g for the Roval disc) is only 9 sec slower in a course like Norseman, but still.
Honor your contract and ride the HED or pay off your sponsor and ride whatever you fancy. The choices to be made should be no different even if the sponsored wheel were 500 g heavier and 2 minutes slower.
To clarify, I am not under any obligations to ride HED. The are the dealer of QR in Norway and recently became distributor of HED as well. I own Roval 321 wheels today and have to buy (get a very good price obviously) or borrow HED wheels.
Bit of a greyer area, but there are very few free lunches in the world.
If they want to give you HED wheels, use those and make them happy. If you have to buy them, use the fastest gear that you can obtain.
Performance-wise there isn’t much difference between discs. The HED is heavier, but will have a marginally more comfortable ride, and the benefits of a wider rim (21mm vs. 19mm internal); lower pressure and better cornering.
If they will lend you the HED I’d use it, but no way would I drop over a grand on a new disc over a sponsor “preferenceâ€. Especially when you already own a great disc. They are supposed to be sponsoring you, not vice versa.
I have the Roval 321 Disc today and think its awesome. However, my sponsor in Norway is distributor of HED and want me to ride a HED RCD Pro. A great wheel for sure but is there any potential performance gain for the HED RCD Pro? The increase weight (1135g compared to 1020g for the Roval disc) is only 9 sec slower in a course like Norseman, but still.
Money and keeping the sponsor happy are the two obvious answers.
Unless they’re providing you with the wheel they prefer I think you’re in the clear. You can do like they do in the TdF and try to black out the Roval decals.
IDK about the new HED RCD disc, but the old JET+ was almost aerodynamically identical to Roval disc.
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Hello, have you ever had a chance to test ENVE Disc ?
Yes, for a client and in rim brake, it wasn’t the fastest option - but there’s not in it between discs anyway so the margins are always tight.