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Cube Agree GTC Pro Wheels upgrade

  • 07-07-2015 11:08PM
    #1
    PukkaStukka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭


    Folks!

    Just completed the RoK over last weekend on my 2011 Cube Agree. I still have the original wheels the bike came with - an otherwise nondescript set of Easton EA30 wheel - which I think are candidates for upgrade. I have a budget of up to €350 and am wondering what would be the best value for money wheelset to replace the Easton's with? It's a summer bike really and does 100-140 km's per week spinning around the hills and byroads of north county Dublin.

    Anyone any recommendations for me? :)

    Thanks in advance!


Comments

  • #2
    rtmie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 501 ✭✭✭rtmie


    Let me be the first of the deluge of replies you will get recommending Campagnolo Zondas ☺


  • #3
    jamesd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,552 ✭✭✭jamesd


    Have zondas on my 2012 cube agree gtc , great upgrade.


  • #4
    PukkaStukka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭PukkaStukka


    jamesd wrote: »
    Have zondas on my 2012 cube agree gtc , great upgrade.

    Can I ask what wheels you upgraded from, and how much of a difference did the Zonda's make?


  • #5
    jamesd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,552 ✭✭✭jamesd


    Went from EA30's to the zondas, the weight difference seemed a lot when holding both rear or both front wheels together to compare them.
    Mentally it made me think I would be quicker, cycle further and climb quicker and higher but in reality it's hard to know if any difference was made.


  • #6
    PukkaStukka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭PukkaStukka


    jamesd wrote: »
    Went from EA30's to the zondas, the weight difference seemed a lot when holding both rear or both front wheels together to compare them.
    Mentally it made me think I would be quicker, cycle further and climb quicker and higher but in reality it's hard to know if any difference was made.

    Interesting that any real-time differences are not that noticeable between they two makes. I think the Easton's are a flimsy sort of wheel and the bearings wouldn't be the toughest either. I'm not that heavy and I don't cycle like a deamon, but if I did, I reckon they'd have come asunder a long time ago.


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  • #7
    jamesd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,552 ✭✭✭jamesd


    PukkaStukka wrote: »
    Interesting that any real-time differences are not that noticeable between they two makes. I think the Easton's are a flimsy sort of wheel and the bearings wouldn't be the toughest either. I'm not that heavy and I don't cycle like a deamon, but if I did, I reckon they'd have come asunder a long time ago.

    Bearings in my eastons were bad, zondas are very light compared to the eastons so on that alone a good upgrade.


  • #8
    Ardennes1944
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    Whats a good price for the Zondas?


  • #9
    ciaeim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 477 ✭✭ciaeim


    Ardennes1944 wrote: »
    Whats a good price for the Zondas?

    335 euro on wiggle best i think


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