Expensive VS Cheap Carbon Road Bike Wheels | Carbon Wheel Group Test 2022

Great reviews 🎉 I wish you guys would make a review on the scribe wheels. I've been racing on them for the past few years and had great success. I'd like to see how they stand up to the competition according to you.

Could you add an overview, of which of the weelsets you testet that had ceramic ball bearings ?

I just use carbon wheels for the looks

Since the video, so much changed. They did their homework in my opinion and there is not much more difference nowadays between cheap and "pay 1k bucks extra for a cool name" companies. Not talking for all cheap wheels but alot got rly rly good these days

As a big rider (105kg) the Campagnolo Bora One 50 have held up for over 2 years and are still true.

These system wheels are tiresome. The hubs are rarely what I want.

And all of them are made on the same factory in China

no DT Swiss? you lost me here...

teamspeed 50mm $300 US.....

Very Thank you for your opinion and information, my question mark, already you answer. Saved my expenses budjet to buy expensive rim😂😂😂 thbaks alot

Wow, thanks for putting in that amount of effort. I'd love to see a similar video about alloy wheels, which are a more realistiv choice for a lot of us.

Where is Ican or farsports or light bicycles?

Wow no Dtswiss wheels here

Do you have to buy tires separately or they come in with a bike

great review guys ! BMC bikes come with CRD-321 carbon wheels. Any idea who makes these wheels ?

Test the enve 4.5

Thank you, great tutorial

Why not a pair of handbuilt e.g. Wheelsmith?

Should have tested some Superteam wheels as well....much cheaper ($350/pair). I put 25,000 miles on a pair

interesting comments about the hunt, have they change there hub suppliers from the cheap nasty things they used in the past?

So wind, slight differences in the way the bikes were riddent, etc. was not a factor to cause any of the small (extremely minor!) differences?!

Interesting…I guessed there wouldn’t be much difference in the performance, good to see the numbers. I’d like to know how Vel 50 RL wheels would compare. Earlier this year I bought a set (on sale) from Sigma Sport and only paid about £400! They weigh ~1600g and are nice looking. Bargain for the price. I’d never be able to justify spending £1k+ for a set of hoops…my wife would kill me! 😂

There is also Bontrager Aeolus, a great 1k alternative.

what is it about each of these rims that makes it either faster or slower? they're all really similar? is it the weight or the shape of the rim or spokes or what I wonder.

Excellent no BS straight to the point for me the Hunt 50 wide aero thank you guys.

Is is coincidence you guys are using the GCN route/ area? Are you guys connected ?

I absolutely LOVE the quiet “Swiss watch” freehub sound of the Ultegra wheels. Shame it performed like such a dog. On a 100 mile ride, those differences add up

Good test guys :) What tire widths were you running and what pressures for tubeless?

Would any of these wheels be suitable for a road Ebike

Mine is Lun Wheelset 60 black edition. They are surprisingly fast and stable on head winds and light enough for tubeless(I'm running Ridenow tube coz lazy to set tubeless and tubeless tire are expensive).

Two comments:

1) The price difference might not be justified in speed, but it will probably show itself in build quality. Be it the quality of the build itself (even spoke tensions, etc) or the longevity of the bearings, you probably are getting more for your money with the more expensive wheels. At least, you'd hope so...

2) By definition, if you do the same 300W for the same time in your race, you're not going to finish with more energy on the fastest wheels because energy = power * time. If you're putting out the same power for the same duration, then you're expending the same energy. What you're really hoping is that the wheels save you time...

Great Test, DT Swiss erc/arc were missing.

Cadex??

You should test Nextie from China. They have 28 external on an 19 internal so the rim to tire interface is perfect. They have internal nipples, carbon blades spokes and can be specced as 16 spoke rims. They cost 700 USD as a 60mm. My next wheels

Hunt are Farsports Kaze with a sticker on them, as confirmed by people at Farsports in private. You can buy them as a 69mm instead of 60 from Farsports. That’s what I have used for 3 years. Price is the same but with DT240 hubs. Never gone out of true.

Palace!!!!

Good review, guys. Chapeau!

Not even DT Swiss in comparison? Something like ARC 1400 would be good to compare against other wheels.

what power and speed on wheels did you get? Its be more correct if you test all whells at same speed and power.

I think I'll forever run 28mm tires only moving forward. With disc brake bikes having so much more clearance they're such a smarter tire to run. Cornering, ride feel, speed, it's all there.

I would like to see a video where you test various brands (DT Swiss Mon Chasseral vs 1560 SPline, Fulcrum Speed 25 vs Wind 55, Zipp 202 vs 404, Enve 2.3 vs 5.6, Mavic, Bontrager, FFWD, whatever brand, just use name brands) of aero wheels, and using the same brands, thier light weight wheel counterparts. 2 circuits, one with climbs, and one with more flats. I wanna see what brands tend to excel where, and what brands have the best wheels where.
Furthermore, I would like to see a cyclocross wheels Edition. Various brands have good cross wheels, like Enve, Sector, Psimet, Bontrager(Paradigm CX, its actually a great set!), Zipp, I9, Kappius, Giant, perhaps throw in a few brands that have well known tubulars (and another video for tubeless) with wide internal widths for cross tires, and make a video there. There's very little CX material on here for CX nerds like myself. Or maybe hire me and give me the video making materials you guys use and I will start a CX Playlist for you guys for anything and all things CX related. I am a massive CX fan and as a mechanic, I have vast knowledge on the fun stuff.

Hi, Thank you for this nice video !

It would be very interesting to compare the Reserve 52/63 with the Roval Rapide...

Well out of the wheels on test I think I would go with the Roval CL, but that front rim width is a risk as noted, it would have been nice to see how the Bontrager Aeolus RSL51 and DT Swiss ARC1400 50mm compare to the wheels on test here

Campagnolo WTOs might have been faster with 23mm on the front (which will expand to nearly 25mm), as they are 26.5mm externally. That's how I ride them (with 25mm on the back).

Maybe next time drop in a shallow wheelset I.E Campag 35 as a control wheel to test aero benefits of deeper rims

What do you think to Scribe carbon wheels ?

I wonder how these would compare to something like a Bontrager Aeolus Pro 37, Pro 51, etc ?