Disc Covers

mloc123

I see http://www.bike-science.com/ are now reselling the wheelbuilder.com disc covers. Anyone ever use one? They get good reviews on tritalk, not going to be as good as a sub9 but apart from the weight penalty they perfom well... apparantly.

£100 seems a little steep for two pieces of plastic, wheelbuiler.com is $80 but postage is the same again.

Quigs Snr

Probably will do the job, considering that a very popular wheel wheel like the Hed Jet (which tests better than a sub 9 in some tests) is in fact a spoked wheel with a very soft and flexible cover on it anyway.

I don't like them myself though, the covers that is, look a bit nasty and ugly components cost you +25 seconds in a TT according to research I just made up.

tunney

A few lads in my club got them from the US. Cost of shipping is the same for 10 as one. So get a group order in.

If taped on and not buttoned on they are almost as good as a disc. (But then we have to get into bulged disc versus flat disc versus lenticular disc and thats a discussion for a cycling forum).

Beasty

tunney wrote: »

thats a discussion for a cycling forum

ouch!!!

mloc123

Seems like a good option for using a 32 spoke powertap as a race wheel then.

billy.fish

mloc123 wrote: »

Seems like a good option for using a 32 spoke powertap as a race wheel then.

Or even better over 404 with powertap.

THe lenticular/flat thing is a big debate.

FWIW i love mine, have a disc two but want to use power, and dont have SRM's etc*








*not using the Polar system on a TT bike

IM0

mloc123 wrote: »

£100 seems a little steep for two pieces of plastic, wheelbuiler.com is $80 but postage is the same again.

but then again the only alternative is about 10-15 times the price..for cheap ones and they are nearly as good.

billy.fish

me@ucd wrote: »

but then again the only alternative is about 10-15 times the price..for cheap ones and they are nearly as good.

They used to be <$50 then some wind tunnel data came out on them and suddenly a $50 increase in price...hmmmmm wonder why

mloc123

billy.fish wrote: »

Or even better over 404 with powertap.

THe lenticular/flat thing is a big debate.

FWIW i love mine, have a disc two but want to use power, and dont have SRM's etc*

*not using the Polar system on a TT bike

404 or indeed an 1080 with PT and cover would be great... I'll have to stick with training PT wheel for the moment

Out of interest... when would you use the polar system over PT? Much weight difference between disc/404+PT+cover?

billy.fish

Only use the polar system on the track bike at the moment.

Have a training PT (open pro) and a racing PT (404). Both used for tri and cx.

Polar is great and all. but useless on a turbo or MTB.