mavic ksyrium elite or vittoria elusion nero

camilorosso

Good dday.

I need your comments, about this 2 wheels, my weight 246 pounds, in i need for climbing.

Thanks for your time

sloppyschleckonds

Not Enough Spokes

HTH

camilorosso

?????

milemuncher1

246 pounds is about 112 Kgs, in my language, you don’t say how tall you are, but unless you’re Shaquille O’Neal, that’s on the heavy side, for a road bike. I think you may need a wheel with more spokes ( higher number of holes in the rim ) than your 2 choices. I’d get some wheels custom made if I were you, ask for 32 holes on the rear wheel.

camilorosso

AHH OK, THANKS FOR YOUR TIME

MY HEIGHT IS A 6.23

sandyballs

Mavic recommend max 120kg weight limit, including bike on the Mavic elite.

milemuncher1

Sandyballs wrote:

Mavic recommend max 120kg weight limit, including bike on the Mavic elite.

Quite right, that’s leaving 8Kgs for the bike and any kit. Not much of a margin.

svetty

If it's your climbing you wish to improve I'd be looking at addressing the 246 pounds not marginally lighter wheels.....

camilorosso

It's true, I'm going down about 9 pounds a month, but I need to change the wheels that the originals did not come out very good. i lost 22 lbs, in 3 month

lostboysaint

Wouldn't be riding either of those and I'm 12 kg lighter than you. Have a good look round for some decent hand builts, something 23mm-25mm wide, 32 spokes each end and a decent hub. You'll pick up something like H Plus Son Archetypes/Velocity A23/Pacenti with Sapim Race spokes on Novatech/Miche hubs for circa £300. They'll be more reliable, will cope with the weight no problem, are likely to be as light.