nothing like low rotational weight! I'm a pretty heavy guy so I have Mavic EX 721 downhill rims on my daily rider and I can tell you there is a world of difference even there between my old setup of Ritchey Speedmax 26x2 tires and standard butyl tubes (approx. 2 lbs. of rubber per wheel), especially my winter setup of Schwalbe Fat Albert 2.35s (3 lbs. with the same tubes) and my new Schwalbe Kojak 26x2 tyres with ultralight tubes (just under a pound of rotational rubber weight per wheel) - the bike is so much more nimble and happy to accelerate now... I love it... so my advice is to forget about the aero bit or offset it with the lightest rubber you can get your hands on! cheers ecke
2011/4/23 Drew <[email protected]>: > Greets... > > A friend of mine just did a bike rebuild and gave me his previous set of > 'Aero' style wheels... they have Shimano Dura ace hubs, a Shimano block and > these fancy looking aero style rims. Very nice I thought as I put them in > the car. > > At home I attacked them with a bucket of soapy water.... and very pretty > they look too. Except as I was cleaning them I though to myself 'blimey > these don't feel as light as I expected' Out with the kitchen scales; yes > they are exactly 100g HEAVIER than the 'no-brand' STEEL wheels originally > fitted to my Peugeot back in the mid '80's. So much for progress!! > > So should I use the set of 90's Ambrosio rims on Shimano 105 hubs I had > built years ago put on these trick looking but heavy modern things? > > Drew, > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
