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custom wheels vs stock wheels
I saw my friend building a set of custom wheels and came to thinking
about what would be a better way to go about getting a nice pair of wheels: buying a sweet set like Mavic Kysrium SSC SL series(either new or through eBay) or building up a nice pair wih some good rims and some good hubs, maybe Chris King, DT spokes.etc etc. Well of course if you went the eBay route and scored some nice Mavic Kysriums, you wouldn't be paying the full retail and it would end up being less than paying for a set of new rims, new hubs, new spokes, nipples to make your custom wheels. Just curious to see if anyone had a preference to custom wheels than to stock wheels or maybe you mixed and matched(custom up front, a stock wheel in back), or tried both but prefered one over the other. Just as a benchmark for comparison, any wheel that I desire would be 28 spoke, stock or custom. |
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Six years ago I built a pair of sprint wheels for a friend. The front wheel
had a 240-gram rim, 28 spokes (1.5mm with alloy nipples), used Mavic hub. Rear was a used Campy 32-spoke rim, same spokes, cheap Shimano hub. Including used Clement silk sew-ups, a used cogset, and a spare front rim (used), the whole set cost me $140. She was used to riding 32-spoke 14-gauge clinchers. Her next race was the Colorado Cat. 4 state championships. She didn't feel any improvement until the final sprint. Then she said that the bike rocketed ahead of the other girls and she got 5th place. Not bad for having started racing 2 months earlier. The next year she bought Contis that ran at 180 psi and won the Cat. 4 state championship. Then she bought a pair of Mavic Heliums for training. The Heliums were too heavy for her to race on. :-) My sense is that manufacturers make wheels capable of surviving a 180-pound man crashing at 35mph. My friend weighs 130 pounds, and women hardly ever crash. So custom wheels made sense for her. For crits she didn't need aerodynamics. Women's races usually don't have breakaways, they ride together until the final sprint, so lighter wheels make all the difference. -- Electronic Anti-Stuttering Devices http://www.casafuturatech.com Thomas David Kehoe Casa Futura Technologies (303) 417-9752 in article , at wrote on 3/4/06 10:40 AM: I saw my friend building a set of custom wheels and came to thinking about what would be a better way to go about getting a nice pair of wheels: buying a sweet set like Mavic Kysrium SSC SL series(either new or through eBay) or building up a nice pair wih some good rims and some good hubs, maybe Chris King, DT spokes.etc etc. Well of course if you went the eBay route and scored some nice Mavic Kysriums, you wouldn't be paying the full retail and it would end up being less than paying for a set of new rims, new hubs, new spokes, nipples to make your custom wheels. Just curious to see if anyone had a preference to custom wheels than to stock wheels or maybe you mixed and matched(custom up front, a stock wheel in back), or tried both but prefered one over the other. Just as a benchmark for comparison, any wheel that I desire would be 28 spoke, stock or custom. |
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Thomas David Kehoe wrote: Then she said that the bike rocketed ahead of the other girls and she got 5th place. Rockets! I'll have to add that to cold fusion, zero point energy, and... the placebo effect... as possible reasons why light wheels are so much faster. |
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"Ron Ruff" wrote:
Rockets! I'll have to add that to cold fusion, zero point energy, and... the placebo effect... as possible reasons why light wheels are so much faster. I liked the part about the 130 pound woman riding 180 psi Contis. Art Harris |
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In article
.com, "Ron Ruff" wrote: Arthur Harris wrote: "Ron Ruff" wrote: Rockets! I'll have to add that to cold fusion, zero point energy, and... the placebo effect... as possible reasons why light wheels are so much faster. I liked the part about the 130 pound woman riding 180 psi Contis. What many people fail to realize is that the more air you put in your tires the heavier they are... wheel radius: r_w = 0.34 m tube radius: r_t = 0.01 m density of air: d = 1.3 kg / m^3 volume of tube: v = 2\pi r_w \pi r_t^2 = 3.36 e-4 m^3 mass of air in tube: 4.33 e-4 kg / bar. -- Michael Press |
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Take a read of my thread on this subject from back in December:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.b...rockets&hl=en& I was more interested in durability than weight. I ended up building myself a set of Velocity Deep-Vs with Ultegra hubs (didn't want to splurge the $ for the grams). I have 36 spokes in the rear and 32 in the front. Most of the advice in the thread recommended the Velocity Fusion, but I wanted to be a little more aggresive with respect to rim strength, and decided to take the weight hit. I was immediately able to measure a speed improvement on TT-type efforts vs. my previous Open Pro/Dura-Ace wheels. On top of that, these wheels will probably outlast my knees. I ended up paying around $300 for all the parts, which isn't a huge bargain, but fair. I wouldn't have been able to get a 36H rear any other way, as far as I could tell (w/out having someone else build it custom). -Mike |
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