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Fit4Life
a Road Racer
from Date Reviewed: May 15, 2011
Strengths: Reliable
Durable
PerformanceWeaknesses: A little on the heavy side for 16/20 spoke wheels.Bottom Line: I have found these wheels offer a great deal of performance for the price. With over 5000 miles on them, they needed only slight truing at the end of last season. The rims are 20.8 mm wide, most others are 19. This decreases rolling resistance and enhances cornering since the tire does not flop over. These wheels are faster than others I have that are 30mm tall and weight 1600 gm and twice the cost.
Favorite Ride: Variety
Price Paid:
$200.00
Purchased At: Out of Business
Similar Products Used: None
Bike Setup: Parts hanger for Ultegra grupo
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tanyanmatt@hotmail.com
a Triathlete
from Date Reviewed: August 7, 2008
Strengths: Strength!Weaknesses: Maybe weight?Bottom Line: I have used these tires for about 12 months, they came with the bike, and man are they are tough! I've had a couple of minor get offs including hitting a slotted drain cover at about 40kph. I bounced about a foot into the air and left a heap of skin and flesh on the road but the wheels were fine. They needed very minor panel beating and adjustment of a couple of spokes and good as new. I am happy with the performance and responsiveness but to be honest have never ridden much on other wheels, so maybe I just dont know what I am missing?
Favorite Ride: Colnago Arte
Price Paid:
$3250.00
Purchased At: lbs
Similar Products Used: none
Bike Setup: Colnago Arte with full Ultegra
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Submitted by
saintsfan342000
a Recreational Rider
from Date Reviewed: July 12, 2008
Strengths: -Durability
-Spoke nipples are on the hub, which ever so slightly reduces the moment of inertia. A neat trick of engineering, but whether or not it makes a non-trivial difference I do not know.
-Stainless steel spokes (only way to go!)
-Nicely machined breaking surfaceBottom Line: I have been thoroughly impressed with these wheels. Before I bought my bike a year ago I read many reviews on this site of the wheels that are common on bikes in the $1-1.5k price range, and many of those reviews were negative, so I did not know what to expect. These have been excellent however.
Best part: Durability! I've hit some mondo potholes...seriously. The roads in Austin, TX are lousy, yet these wheels have held up remarkably.
I suffered the unfortunate experience once of having my frame pump fall out of its place on the downtube and go through the spokes of my front wheel and hit the fork. One spoke is now very slightly bent, and I do notice a minute wobble in the wheel now indicating that it has gone out of true, but that was three months ago and I still have yet to get it fixed because my retailer is 3 hours away and there is no immediate need for repair.
I can't compare this to other wheelsets, so I have no idea how they serve as racing wheels, nor do I know whether these are considered "stiff wheels", but they are as good a stock wheel as I could have asked for.
I am mostly a rec rider but I've recently started doing some CAT5 crits. I don't win, but that surely has nothing to do with these wheels, but rather the bike's engine's lack of speed and stamina.
Purchased At: LBS
Similar Products Used: None...being that this C'dale is my first road bike and I am still running these stock wheels, I have nothing to compare it to...so take my vote of 5 as simply a statement of my satisfaction and a complete lack of issues with these wheels.
Bike Setup: Stock 2007 Cannondale CAAD9 Optimo 3, which means:
CAAD9 frame with FULL 105 setup, and WH-561 wheels.
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Petervermeer
a Recreational Rider
from Date Reviewed: February 21, 2008
Strengths: Cheap, good qualityWeaknesses: weakness in cornersBottom Line: Bought this as a trainingswheel. The wheel is perfect for this goal. For more professional racing the wheel is to weak.
Favorite Ride: Rund um den Henninger Tour
Price Paid:
$145.00
Purchased At: futurumshop.nl
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Clevor
a Road Racer
from Date Reviewed: December 25, 2007
Strengths: Super technology at a bargain price. Looks to be a very durable, aerodynamic, wheelset. 1790 gms not too bad for this price category.Weaknesses: Decals can peel off easily. Plain silver so no bling (except high-tech looking hubs). Hubs jumbo-sized so don't look high end.Bottom Line: Needed a cheap set of wheels for my trainer. Bought it based on reviews on this site. When I received the wheelset, the rims were so wide and beefy I thought I made a mistake and they were ATB wheels! Nice build quality; very cleanly drilled spoke access holes without sharp edges. Beefy spoke 'knot' at rim end.
Wow! The technology on this wheelset is the same as Shimano's $2,000 deep dish carbon tubulars: low spoke count and nipples at the hub for aerodynamics; this also reduces rotating weight. Rear hub flanges are so wide in diameter spoke length is short. Both are optimum for maintaining wheel stiffness. Radial lacing on the front with radial on the rear on the drive side looks trick.
Price Paid:
$152.00
Purchased At: Ecyclingstore.com
Similar Products Used: Easton Circuits, Mavic Elites, Campy Boras/Neutrons, HED Stingers, Ligero custom.
Bike Setup: 15.1 lb TCR Comp I.
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