Originally Posted by
WeightySteve
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I don't get this...
I have just ordered some and I will ride them 100% of the time (on indoor tracks only, I have outdoor wheels!) once they arrive. This includes training SQT's, league races and anything more ambitious I think about in the future.
What's the point of buying such nice wheels only for them to gather dust and only see a track twice a year? With Mavic crash protection, they are covered for disasters etc. Anyway each to their own, but IMO life is too short to hide these away for special occasions.
What's the point of having $7,000USD wheels and putting training tires on them?
The reason people don't use these in weekly racing is because you put really nice tires on your really nice wheels. But, you don't want to ride really nice tires weekly in training races because they are usually thin, light, sticky, expensive, and wear quickly.
So, it's the tires that will keep you from riding them weekly.
And if you do put weekly training tires on them...now you have a set of $7,000 training wheels
