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Time for a new wheelset

  • 13-08-2012 1:59pm
    #1
    clod71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 641 ✭✭✭


    Time to change my wheels I'd say... around 200 euro budget
    Mavic Aksium or Fulcrum 5 ?
    I like the Mavic more but it looks like the Fulcrum 5 are about 600gr. ligther (???)
    Any other brand I should look at in that price range?
    Thanks


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  • #2
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,220 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Aksiums are definitely not 600g heavier than Fulcrum 5s.


  • #3
    clod71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 641 ✭✭✭clod71


    Lumen wrote: »
    Aksiums are definitely not 600g heavier than Fulcrum 5s.

    hmm... I thought it was far too much, but that's what the fact sheet says on bike24, but the weight of the aksiums it's including the tyres (silly me!) :rolleyes:


  • #4
    Plastik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,992 ✭✭✭Plastik


    Askiums are claimed at 1,735 I think.


  • #5
    clod71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 641 ✭✭✭clod71


    Plastik wrote: »
    Askiums are claimed at 1,735 I think.

    Thanks Plastik. According to bike24:

    Fulcrum 5 - approx. 1.76 Kilogram (wheelset, front 775g, rear 985g)

    Mavic Aksiums - approx. 1.735 Kilogram (per set without tires and with ED11, front approx. 800g, rear approx. 935g)

    So... is it only weight that I have to look at?
    Lumen, you were talking about truing being better on the Fulcrum in some other post if I'm not wrong.. or these "entry level" are all the same?
    For my pockets 200 euro are already a mountain of money.. :cool:
    these will go on my only bike, which I used for both club spins/sportives as well as to commute.


  • #6
    lennymc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,460 ✭✭✭lennymc


    what wheels do you have at the moment? Its possible that you might not get any improvement with new 200 euro wheels. Why are you changing?


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  • #7
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,220 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    FWIW I don't like the design of the Fulcrum 5 hubs, specifically the way the spoke enters, but that's just me (I knocked a bag into the spokes at low speed, ripped out a spoke and effectively killed the wheel).

    On the other hand, Fulcrums are reputed to be very strong. I haven't run the rear one long enough to compare to an Aksium.

    Campag wheels are also well regarded (I know Fulcrum are effectively Campag), although the spoke pattern is a bit stupid on most of them.

    I wouldn't worry about weight of wheels too much. Objectively it makes very little difference at all.


  • #8
    clod71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 641 ✭✭✭clod71


    Hi lennymc: at the moment I have the "standard" wheels I got with the bike... Nothing special I believe. The rims are Alex Race 24 and the hubs are Shimano with steel spokes
    I thought the wheels were one of the cheapest way to improve the ride...
    I have a Alu frame (Genesis Aether) and according to my wife it's gonna be that frame for another year at least...
    Also those wheels might turn out to be useful if next year finally I manage to buy a new frame. :o

    @lumen, thanks for all the explanations, but now I'm even more confused than I was before... I like the aksiums more like I said, but are you saying Fulcrum are stronger? :confused:

    Anyway I think i'll go away and do a bit of research try to figure a bit more about bloody wheels... thanks guys!


  • #9
    ford2600
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭ford2600


    This is a thread I started a few eeks back with similar query
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056715779
    clod71 wrote: »
    Hi lennymc: at the moment I have the "standard" wheels I got with the bike... Nothing special I believe. The rims are Alex Race 24 and the hubs are Shimano with steel spokes
    I thought the wheels were one of the cheapest way to improve the ride...
    I have a Alu frame (Genesis Aether) and according to my wife it's gonna be that frame for another year at least...
    Also those wheels might turn out to be useful if next year finally I manage to buy a new frame. :o

    @lumen, thanks for all the explanations, but now I'm even more confused than I was before... I like the aksiums more like I said, but are you saying Fulcrum are stronger? :confused:

    Anyway I think i'll go away and do a bit of research try to figure a bit more about bloody wheels... thanks guys!


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