I’m borrowing a Zipp 606 set up for a time trial this weekend and I just found out it’s a combination of a 404 and 808. If Zipp’s 606 wheel set is a 404 front and 808 rear, is there any reason they call this set up a 606? Other than being half of 404 + 808? Is this an arbitrary name derived by marketing or is there actually something behind it?
I’m driving myself nuts over this and don’t know why!
who cares, they are discontinued.
If 408+808 = 1,216 and you divide that by two you’d have 608 according to my math. I don’t get it either.
If 408+808 = 1,216 and you divide that by two you’d have 608 according to my math. I don’t get it either.
Except it’s 404+808=1212, and 1212/2=606.
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oh yeah, duh, it is 404. So I guess their math is correct.
When I was taking an electrical engineering class in college, I spent an entire night wondering why I couldn’t get a transistor equation to work right. I then looked at the (copious) error listing for the textbook, and found out the equation I was using was a typo! Too bad I didn’t realize that at 1:00 AM instead of 6:00 AM!
Quick to dismiss. Do you ride HED’s?
Maybe Zipp felt they didn’t need to market the 404/808 combo as a 606 any more since they’re still selling the 404 and 808 separately. They just needed to give people the idea of combining wheels and now it’s caught on the marketing scheme has been discontinued. I guess there’s nothing more to the name than the sum of the parts for marketing purposes but I was just curious if there was a concrete answer.
Not really, I like Zipps but I ride training wheels. But I never really understood why would one buy the 606s.
Yeah, and why aren’t 909s 409s, or 6.506.5s?
Less deep in front for control in windy conditions and more deep in back for courses you want to but can’t run a disc on? That debate will continue until we no longer need wheels on bikes.
Training wheels for me too 99.9% of the time. I can’t justify buying ANY race wheel with my budget. Hence borrowing them, or renting for a 6-pack, however you want to look at it.
It’s all a marketing ploy to keep people talking about them. And like a sheep I’ve played right into their hands. Damn the man.
… or 6.506.5s?
I’d buy a set for sure if they named them this!