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The wheels suitable for raising

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Published on Friday, 09 July 2010 08:22

Written by Luca Salvatelli

Dear Editor,

good morning and congratulations for your site that I recently discovered but I really find very good. I am a "Sunday" cyclist but do not disdain the 80/100 km and I especially like the rise. I would be willing to change the frame and I would have focused on the Specialized Roubaix Expert.
I read your letters and advised to give this bike very comfortable, with good wheels. I'd know what you think and say what bearing ceramic hubs, which I hear more and more talk?

Dear reader, thanks for the compliments.
I have repeatedly expressed the opinion, based on the documentation of our road tests, the performance of a bike not just the frame but the bike as a whole wheel-group-components-etc. The main error of many cyclist, however, is enough to think that a good frame, there investing the majority of the budget, then save the rest. This concept can be valid only if one considers the frame as the "first brick" of a bike that will take place over the years but is currently impossible to implement due to financial problems. Otherwise, it's much better for performance road, split the budget evenly between the various components that make up a bike. In its category the frame Specialized Roubaix Expert is a high-end frame and assemble it makes little sense, then, with components that are not on his level. If you want to build a bike suitable for boarding is preferable, therefore, take the wheels, low profile, very light, allowing faster cornering inputs also needed to tackle the slopes quickly. In this case the budget available to direct you to the best models. Campagnolo (Hyperion Ultra, Hyperion One, Neutron Ultra, Shamal Ultra and then down), Fulcrum (Racing Light XLR, Racing Zero and then down the other models) Mavic (R-SYS SL and then down the other models) are the main wheels to be taken, depending on your budget. Also according to the price, the wheels are equally valid FSA, Miche and Ambrosio, in addition to DT Swiss, but the list is very long, because there are many good wheels on the market. In general, then, again according to its economic foundation, it would be preferable to take the wheel for tubulars, which guarantees better performance. Finally, a possibility which safeguards the budget, but with good performance: the wheel assembled by a craftsman starting hubs Shimano Dura Ace or Campagnolo Record, with rims for tubular Ambrosio, Crono F20 model, and variable section spokes, a pair of wheels very light and slides that do not cost a folly.