Giusto per sfatare la leggenda dei grammi che contano di piu' sulle masse rotanti...
“An ounce off the wheels is worth a pound off the frame,” goes the old saying, implying that rotating weight, especially on the wheels, is supremely important. The claim is sometimes laid out in less hyperbolic terms that weight on the wheels counts twice because when you accelerate you have to get it both spinning and moving forward.
Problem is, it’s not true. In 2001 bike engineer Kraig Willett analysed the forces on wheels(link is external) and concluded:
“When evaluating wheel performance, wheel aerodynamics are the most important, distantly followed by wheel mass. Wheel inertia effects in all cases are so small that they are arguably insignificant.”
The idea that rotating mass is important comes from the belief that wheel inertia matters, because it’s inertia that has to be overcome to accelerate a wheel. But Willett clearly demonstrates that wheel inertia doesn’t matter, so rotating weight is also relatively unimportant.
Why not? Well, you don't do much accelerating when you ride a bike, and even when you do the acceleration is relatively low, so the power expended accelerating a bike with ‘heavy’ wheels is only fractionally higher than that needed for light wheels. Overall weight matters when you’re climbing, but even that’s not as big a factor as people imagine and it’s a lot cheaper to save weight off your middle than the bike.
In fact you spend most of your time, and therefore effort, shoving the air out of the way, and that’s a far better basis for choosing wheels. The roughly tenfold difference in the effect of aerodynamics versus total mass means you’re far better off with a pair of good aero wheels than a pair of light ones.
Idem. Ho comprato un numero di ruote indecente per qualche anno, con pesi che andavano dai 1800 grammi al kilo, profili diversi, differenziati, carbonio, alluminio, carbonio con piste in alluminio e...niente, sempre i soliti miseri tempi...
In piu', sono piacevolmente insensibile
Idem. Ho comprato un numero di ruote indecente per qualche anno, con pesi che andavano dai 1800 grammi al kilo, profili diversi, differenziati, carbonio, alluminio, carbonio con piste in alluminio e...niente, sempre i soliti miseri tempi...
In piu', sono piacevolmente insensibile
Aggiungici che qualche mese prima ho sostituito il gruppo passando da un vecchio 105 10v ad un Ultegra R8000 nuovo fiammante
Estetica migliorata, peso diminuito e prestazioni invariate.
Ma porca miseria che soddisfazione (quindi si, sono stati soldi butt...ehm, spesi bene)!
