Shimano Dura Ace C24 for 1.90m 90 kg rider?

Kupepe

Hello

I am thinking to take advantage of the forthcoming sales period and upgrade my wheels. I am currently on Mavic Aksium wheels which they came with the bike. I am 1.92m tall with 90kg and I am planning to lose 3-5 more in the coming months. The wheels I am interested are Shimano's Dura Ace C24.

http://bike.shimano.com/publish/content ... _road.html

I read quite good reviews about them saying that they are really good all-around wheels with good stiffness. On some forums however, I read people saying that for riders of my size there might be issues of flexing due to the low count of spokes. However, none of them actually owned the wheels but where talking based on their overall experience and logic.

Anyone actually on my size that owns these wheels? Any pointers?

gin0rm0

I'm 6ft 2" and 74kg. Have the RS80 c24's which are pretty much the same wheel (other than the hub I think)

Compared to my Ksyrium SL's, they are a little flexy when sprinting but nothing too bad. You might be better off getting something stiffer tbh (Mavics or Fulcrums perhaps?)

acidstrato

im about 80kg and my front creaks when i get out of the saddle. still a good stiff wheel but the more you abuse it the worse it'll be.

Iif you want stiff as possible I'd also say go for mavis or fulcrums. my old fulcrum racing 1s were bomb proof. and the blade spokes were mint

Lookyhere

I was around 85kg when i got the original DA C24 and my GF has my old RS80s - imo the DA s are great wheels (i ve used mine in Euro sportives, TTs and loads of Road races) maybe the RS80s are slightly less stiff (they have shorter alloy nipples) so spoke tension could be less?
I recently bought some Fulcrum Zeros, cant tell the difference! infact i'm selling them, to buy the tubular version.

Kupepe

So what u mean is that u got the DA 24 .. bought the Zeros but because there was no difference u are selling the zeros?