Well, I know this has been discussed before, but I am wondering about the advantage or disadvantage of a carbon wheel in the front. I am thinking of a HED Jet or something in the front and maybe a tri spoke or a renn disc in the back. I am running a pair of Bontrager Race wheels right now on my bike and I do like them. They are a solid wheel for the money for sure, but do they offer any type of aero advantage? Would a HED wheel even in the front of my bike make that big of a difference? I am riding a size 56 road bike with a forward seatpost and profile jammers. I have never tried a carbon wheel, that is why I ask. Thanks for any advice.
Wells, my advice would be to go to all3sports.com and get one of the Renn Disks on sale. Run it with your bontrager front wheel.
I’m sure some other people will tell you different, that the front wheel makes more of an aero difference than the front. I noticed the biggest difference running a CH Aero Cover with my Alex Front Wheel on my Felt!!
I will be running a disk/deep dish front combo from now on though (of course, I already own the wheels).
Mike
Thanks for the advice Mike. I have heard really good things about the Renn Disk so I do think I will buy one. Sometimes I see a lot of pros running tri spokes in the back as well as disk so that is why I thought a tri spoke might be better, but I do like the Renn Disk and it is in my price range. Is there a good carbon deep dish wheel that you suggest for the front wheel? I will use my Bontrager for now and experiment. Thanks again
I have a Hed Jet60 front, Spinergy Tilium SS front, Velocity Spartacus 16 spoke front and a Renn disc. I’d pretty much run the Tilium and Renn combo unless it was insanely windy (much greater than 30mph). Then I’d change out the front for the Velocity but keep the disc. A trispoke rear is definitely a good wheel, but not as aero as a Renn and with very similar moment of inertia. I’d recommend the Tilium SS over the Hed any day.
Thanks for letting me know how these wheels run because as everybody knows triathlon equipment and especially wheel experiments can be very expensive. I am definitely feeling the Renn Disk is a must more than a front wcarbon wheel at this time. I was considering the HED 60 too, but I am going to wait on that now and check around, check out Spinergy and others. I had heard in the past, maybe a number of years ago bad things about Spinergy. Just things like the wheels break and that they were expensive to fix so I always stayed clear of them even with road or mountain bike wheels. Thank you for the advice. I am checking the sites for cool wheels now. I do like the Renn though.
yeah, get the disk for the rear, the Renn’s are nice although I love my Zipp. But if the sponsor didn’t loan me my Zipp and I had to buy one, bang for the buck, the Renn is king. Don’t see any reason you’d get a rear tri-spoke over the disk. It’s not much lighter, handling wise it won’t make much of a difference, if you do Hawaii you can always borrow another rear, and it doesn’ tmake as cool of a sound as the disk!
on the front, stick with your bontragers if money is an issue, if not the Jet sounds good or anything else similar.
Get the disk, you’ll never regret it. I bought a disk from all3sports a couple weeks ago. They have a nice sell on disks with 03 hubs and the 04 disk. Great wheel.
I’d recommend the Hed Stinger up front. Cheaper than the Zipp although it may not come in clincher form (not sure if you are going clincer or tubie). Also check out the Hed Alps.
Well, You have sold me on the RENN. I am excited to get it now and try it out. Thanks for the positive feedback on that disk and the excellent advice on the front wheel. With all of the carbon wheels out there, Zipp, HED, Corima, X-Lab, Spinergy, FSA, etc, it gets very confusing if you can’t test them out. Like the RENN Disk, is there a bang for the buck front carbon wheel?