Best bang for buck aero front?

I’m in the midst of a huge wheel change potentially. Have tubie race hoops, clincher OpenPro trainers. Would like to get a PT rear/cover and a decent clincher front for race day.

ideas? My big kicker is that I won’t ride anything with a carbon braking surface, has to be alum. That’s about it…thanks.

I’ve been quite happy with my Sram S60. Right about 500 bucks for a decently deep well shaped wheel.

Tri spoke

…/thread before all you jet9/zipp808 people get in here :wink:
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Just went through the same situation. I already had a disc cover but wanted an aero front so I did some research and decided I most likely wanted one with the patented toroidal profile if I could afford it and so then I did a very quick best price check (just used yahoo shopping so I’m certain cheaper prices could be found with enough searching) and here is what I came up with

Clincher
HED Jet 6- $750 774g
HED Jet 6 Flamme Rouge- $975 728g
HED Jet 9- $800 809g
HED Jet 9 Flamme Rouge- $1000 760g
Zipp 404- $1035 772g
Zipp 808- $1125 902g
Zipp 1080- $1215 1112g
Sram S60- $497 830g
Sram S80- $530 951g
Flashpoint 60-$650 854g
Flashpoint 80-$650 957g

Also looked at Real Design and Planet-X (for tubular), but I couldn’t pass up the deal on the Sram wheel (on Amazon.com, Niagara Cycle Works). My Sram S80 just arrived yesterday and I can’t wait to try it out.

One of the late-90s Shamal HPW-12 Titanium. Super fast wheel, plus it looks absolutely fantastic, and you get retro points.

http://twitter.argfoo.com/shamals.jpg

You can usually find pretty cheap H3’s in the classifieds. Love mine. :slight_smile:
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Ha, that’s the picture of my shamals I sold on ebay a while back. fucking campy cassette body. also, the 16 spoke version is a bit stiffer, if you care about that.