Alto Velo Wheelsets

furiousd
furiousd Posts: 214
edited August 2016 in Road buying advice
Does anyone have experience of these, read a couple of reviews but cant find anything in the forum.
Interesting concept and look to be good, just wanted to see if anyone knew anything more about them. Even a review on here doesn't have any comments.

http://altocycling.com/products/alto-velo-cc40

Thanks
D

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  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    What's the interesting concept?
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  • NameTaken
    NameTaken Posts: 45
    bendertherobot wrote:
    What's the interesting concept?


    The unlimited rider weight is interesting

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  • furiousd
    furiousd Posts: 214
    bendertherobot wrote:
    What's the interesting concept?

    The design of rear hub, or is this not something different, i may have missed it.
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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,310
    The benefits of having a high flange are over rated, the actual change in bracing angle is minimal, the downside is that in order to build a huge flange that doesn't weigh a ton, you need to remove a lot of material, which renders the structure weaker. The I beam is designed to do a job which is not that of a hub flange.
    Radial lacing on the drive side is a mixed bag too... it works for Mavic, it didn't for Zipp; again, its down to how much stress the flange can take before it fatigues and fails, which is impossible to say by just looking at the wheels... also I am not sure I have seen J bend spokes in a radial pattern on the rear drive side before, again it might work, it might not.
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