Lightweight owners: which other wheelset do you ride?

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TonyM
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by TonyM

Hi,

I start with me:

On my main/ summer bike (I now have only one summer bike, a C60, and a winter/ rain bike, a Colnago Dream) I have a set of Lightweight Meilenstein clincher Schwarz (CeramicSpeed bearings).


Actually I planed -but eventually discard it - to buy a set of Campagnolo Bora Ultra 50 (or 35) in the bright label version because of the look of the bright labels of Campagnolo but I figured out that the performance would not be as good as with the Lightweight.


Only for the mountains and for safety reasons I use a different wheelset, a Fulcrum aluminum Racing Zero Nite.

What about you guys?
Do you use only your Lightweight wheelset or do you use also other wheelsets?
And why?

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Lightweight Meilensteins in France where my average speeds are higher, and Corima MCC S+ in Majorca, where much of my riding is climbing.

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2 sets of lightweights. Tried others but nothing feels anywhere near as good/nice.

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Lightweights mainly on my C60 and Bora Ultra 50's (Bright) on my Canyon Ultimate Aluminium, both sets are tubs. Thinking of buying a pair of Bora 50 One's (Dark), clinchers.

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On my Urgestalt Lightweight clinchers or Obie Schwarz, winter bike profile design with Ali brake track.

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can't choose other than LW std 3 for racing right now but will use hyperon for commuting. bora 50 and bora 80 ultra are both in the mix as well.
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Just a question for all of you guys,... none of you even slightly curious of Bike Ahead wheels?
Sure, i know they're for disc brakes.
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Have not heard of them! How Do they compare to Enve 3.4disc for example?

wheelsONfire wrote:Just a question for all of you guys,... none of you even slightly curious of Bike Ahead wheels?
Sure, i know they're for disc brakes.




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by poppiholla

I ride my S-works with:
1: Meilenstein clinchers
2: Fulcrum Racing Speed XLR tubes
3: Fulcrum Racing 1

I ride my Pinarello Dogma with:
1: Campa Bora one Clinchers
2: Campa Bora One tubes
3: Campa Shamal clinchers
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by 3Pio

poppiholla wrote:I ride my S-works with:
1: Meilenstein clinchers
2: Fulcrum Racing Speed XLR tubes
3: Fulcrum Racing 1

I ride my Pinarello Dogma with:
1: Campa Bora one Clinchers
2: Campa Bora One tubes
3: Campa Shamal clinchers



As someone who think to upgrade Shamals Ultra to Bora One 35 Tubulars, im interested if u can compare the performance diferences u can feel between Shamals and Bora One Tubs.. Also i ride a lot of mountains, and sometimes long distance riding alone out of my country, so also thinking should i stick with clinchers or move on tubulars...The Shamals i ride in this moment, i ride with Latex Tubes (Vittoria), and Vittoria Corsa G+ Tires (and very sastisfied from the ride, reliability...). Im interested just in performance differences, i would not upgrade just for look :)
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by leej88

Do the majority of you also swap out the brake pads when changing wheels?

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by poppiholla

I think that tubes ride fantastic, if you mount some good tires. I can recommend Veloflex or Vittoria. Clinchers are easier when having a flat. I would not recommend using tubes all the time. When the weather is bad, the risks on having a flat tire are bigger so clinchers are more convenient then. When I ride tubes I always bring a spare tube with me. A can of latex doesn't always work.
My shamals are clinchers so I cannot say anything about shamal tube wheels. Both Shamal's and Bora's ride very very good.

When I change my wheelset I change brakepads too when I move over from carbon to alu wheels. When I ride my Meilenstein wheels I change brakepads to the Special L:ightweight brake pads.
On my carbon wheels I use campa brakepads or the Reynolds cryo blue pads.
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