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wheel upgrade from shimano R500

  • 05-09-2015 12:01pm
    #1
    Derrydingle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 366 ✭✭


    I was thinking about buying a set of wheels for the training bike it has shimano R500 on it , without going to mad price wise what would be a good upgrade?


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  • #2
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Zonda's.


  • #3
    Pablo Rubio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 365 ✭✭Pablo Rubio


    Mavic open pro on ultegra hubs.


  • #4
    Derrydingle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 366 ✭✭Derrydingle


    Was looking at a pair of fulcrum quattro would there be much of a difference them and the R500


  • #5
    crosstownk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Zondas.

    I upgraded to Zondas from the stock Giant wheels. I've clocked up over 3,000km on them through Dublin City, potholes, up and down kerbs at times and they are still perfectly true.
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  • #6
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Derrydingle wrote: »
    Was looking at a pair of fulcrum quattro would there be much of a difference them and the R500

    They're a lot stiffer. I had Quattros before the Zonda's, to be honest there's not a lot between them so you should see/feel a difference over your R500's


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  • #7
    Derrydingle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 366 ✭✭Derrydingle


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote:
    They're a lot stiffer. I had Quattros before the Zonda's, to be honest there's not a lot between them so you should see/feel a difference over your R500's


    In reviews people were saying the quattros are better on flat and Zonda's were better on hills , would you say that's true and also what's the quattros like in cross wind


  • #8
    billyhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,174 ✭✭✭✭billyhead


    Another alternative wheel upgrade would be Mavic Krysium Elites


  • #9
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Derrydingle wrote: »
    In reviews people were saying the quattros are better on flat and Zonda's were better on hills , would you say that's true and also what's the quattros like in cross wind

    I would say that's reasonably true, the Quattros certainly rolled faster downhill in my experience. The Quattros are a little more susceptible to cross winds but they're not a handful by any manner or means. They're a really good wheelsets and I would recommend the highly. I had mine 2 years and put approx 6k km's on them and they never needed attention in that time. The only reason I changed was that I preferred the look of the zondas and I got them at a great price. Campag Scirroccos ate basically the same wheel apart from the G3 spoke arrangement on the reR wheel, they're identical weight and look better too.


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