Originally Posted by
PeteHski
This statement will fail a simple fact check. Wheel weight does play a small part in overall weight when climbing, but rotating inertia is totally irrelevant. It’s barely relevant when accelerating hard out of a corner too, which is why modern pros will invariably race crits on deep section wheels.
People either understand this or they don’t.
To align with your point, I watched a recent interview with the former tech director of Zipp and the salient point was that weight only becomes a factor when the gradient is 6/7%+.