Hello
I’m new to this forum and I would like to know if people who ride these wheels (especially the 100 front and back)are happy with them. They seem like a good wheelset and te price is not that bad.
I know the Zipp’s are great wheels(but too much $$). I just want to know if the BR roll well and carry the mommentum (good/smooth bearings). i am not worried about weight. I would really appreciate any comments/suggestions.
Thanks
I don’t believe they have come out of full scale production on the 100’s yet. They just showed them at Interbike, so you could probably email Dave or John and ask them if anyone has used them yet. I only saw one pair of 100’s at the show (in the BR booth), otherwise, they had a bunch of their other deep rimmed wheels on plenty of bikes in many different booths (probably 2nd to Zipp when it came to time trial/triathlon bike/wheel sets).
of course they have been produce for over a year …i been riding them for a year and so many age grouper…and you can get them anywhere…tons of people have riddem them and are happy,
they are as good as zipp…cheaper and you get top quality wheels very good hub/bearing
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Are you sure? The 100s have been out awhile I thought. The 200s are not.
I’ve used the Blackwell 100 front this entire season and raced on them at Ford Ironman 70.3 Whirlpool Steelhead traithlon, the Bikesport Sylvania Triathlon and about eight other races this year.
I like them quite a bit, I am using a disk on the rear and particularly like the Blackwell disk, which is just the older, non-dimpled Zipp disk (made by Zipp for Blackwell) that is less expensive than the Zipp dimpled disk.
The 100 front is fast and can be a little gusty in cross winds, especially gusty cross winds. I recently (two weeks ago) did a good ride on very hilly, technical terrain on the 100 front and disk rear and thought the handling was excellent in that environment too.
Overall I like them a lot. The hub on the Blackwell 100 front is particularly nice and ride quality is good. I have TUFO S3 Lite tubulars on them with the flat resistant goo inside.
Nice wheels, I like mine.
yup…I was wrong. I thought about that after I posted. I was referring to the 200’s…
I am hoping to ride a 200 rear and 100 front this season…as long as the wheel does not have the words “disco” on it!
Tom, I was wondering what you think of the idea of racing with clinchers?
Given your experience with the disk rear is this a set-up you would recommend from them or is there another combination you would go with if you could only afford one set of race wheels by them? Also - how is there customer service from a consumer and dealer perspective? Thanks.
Cool!!
I guess I will get a BR 100’s wheelset them since nobody said anything negative about them. Thanks
I’ve had problems with flatting clinchers. I just don’t see them as dependable as tubulars- especially the newer tubulars such as TUFO’s (I don’t buy the bad rolling resistance argument) and tires like Continental Sprinter Gatorskins. They are reasonably light (but not superlight) and durable enough that I don’t bother with a spare even in a race like Ironman. I reckon I save a lot more weight going to slightly heavier tubulars and then getting rid of all the spare/flat changing stuff. I don’t like caring a pound of stuff under my saddle.
I’m a little old school I guess when it comes to this. I’ve glued a lot of tubulars so I am pretty proficient at doing it quickly and neatly and have never had any issues with tubulars so I stick with them for racing.
I would recommend them with the caveat that you should be over 140 pounds and be a confident and compitent bike handler. The wind does push on these- so you have to be OK with a little crosswind turbulence. If that is unsettling to you then just get the shallower Blackwells.
Customer service with Blackwell is another reason I bought the wheels and why I like the company. They are very responsive and always return a (rare) missed call. I like working with those fellas. Good guys.