Apologies for butting in, but
Apologies for butting in, but I have this conundrum too. I have a pair of robust and faithful open pros on ultegra, but I felt last year in the local road race league that something with a degree of aero-ness about them would have really helped. Plus, this year I’m doing the etape – and I think I’ll need all the help I can get there 🙂
I think clincher is gonna have to be the way to go, but I can’t decide if it is worth spanking cash on something ‘aero’ like the Reynolds Attack, or the Easton EC70s, or even the DA 7850’s, or try to build my own up. I can build wheels pretty well, though I’ve pretty much only ever built 3x, my open pros are 36 spoke 3 cross (bombproof!), so if I got a nice rim and laced a pair up radial/half radial with low spoke count, bladed spokes, would they be comparable? Can you get ‘aero’ rims on their tod? I don’t mind a bit of a fiddle.