New Wheels Advice Please

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  • cycleclinic
    cycleclinic Posts: 6,865
    I don't the Kysrium elites bladed spokes are a selling point. They are thick bladed spokes menaing they are not that aerodynamic. I fact there are not very aero at all ad it is not hard to build a very stiff wheel with a low spoke count I do it all the time. Oddly though a higher spoke count can weigh the same for comparable stiffness. So in that case the higher spoke count wins as the spokes will fatigue at a slower rate.
    http://www.thecycleclinic.co.uk -wheel building and other stuff.
  • veterangaz
    veterangaz Posts: 79
    Went for the Zondas. Didn't look like a decent pair of handbuilts would go as low as my budget and they have had some great reviews. Fingers crossed and thanks for all of your input!
  • gattonero
    gattonero Posts: 16
    northpole wrote:
    ...you can see there isn't much time to build a budget set of wheels, so I am pretty sure their skilled mechanics have not built them, but they were rather outsourced to keep the cost down...
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    Do you know this for sure (i.e. have seen it) or you're just making assumptions?
    My take is for the latter, as you probably don't know that a skilled mechanic builds a "standard" wheel in 25 minutes tops
    Ciao!
    Andrea

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