Worth using old wheels....

[E65Ross]

For the winter? I know it's a long way off yet but I still have an old set of fulcrum 7 wheels in the garage which I haven't used since I got my RS80 wheels. I was thinking that if I swapped to the fulcrum 7 wheels for the winter, along with a suitable winter tyre, it would help stave off some unnecessary wear to my RS80s, which I can keep for when the weather is a bit nicer.

Maybe swap the wheels at the end of September and keep them on until around March time.... Or is it a pointless exercise and I should just keep running the RS80s?

Cheers

[anonymous-user]

I'd wait until winter forecasts are a bit more accurate to be honest, this year we had a very mild winter here in the south and it wouldnt have been worth using "winter wheels". To be honest, bike parts wear, whilst you save on rim wear by swapping wheel, you are still putting wear on the drivetrain. Just give the RS81s some new bearings at the start and end of the winter and keep using them....

[ALawson]

Sell the 7's, use the others as winter and then get some even better ones next year. Isn't that the answer you wanted?

[numtumfutunch]

ALawson said:

Sell the 7's, use the others as winter and then get some even better ones next year. Isn't that the answer you wanted?

Thats the correct PH answer

In reality I run Ksyrium Elites in summer and some scuzz issue Shimano's which cost £60 for the pair at Planet X in winter

For me its worth the (minimal) hassle to avoid my braking surface being ground away plus it just has to make sense to keep my bestie's bearings away from grime, salt and general crud

Finally when I swap in April/May each year I get a free speed increase!

[MadDad]

Winter wheels? I think you need a bike to go with them........

[E65Ross]

numtumfutunch said:

ALawson said:

Sell the 7's, use the others as winter and then get some even better ones next year. Isn't that the answer you wanted?

Thats the correct PH answer

In reality I run Ksyrium Elites in summer and some scuzz issue Shimano's which cost £60 for the pair at Planet X in winter

For me its worth the (minimal) hassle to avoid my braking surface being ground away plus it just has to make sense to keep my bestie's bearings away from grime, salt and general crud

Finally when I swap in April/May each year I get a free speed increase!

[outnumbered]

E65Ross said:

For the winter? I know it's a long way off yet but I still have an old set of fulcrum 7 wheels in the garage which I haven't used since I got my RS80 wheels. I was thinking that if I swapped to the fulcrum 7 wheels for the winter, along with a suitable winter tyre, it would help stave off some unnecessary wear to my RS80s, which I can keep for when the weather is a bit nicer.

Maybe swap the wheels at the end of September and keep them on until around March time.... Or is it a pointless exercise and I should just keep running the RS80s?

Cheers

Sounds like a good idea to me if you're riding through the winter... But probably more like Nov-Mar as October is often pretty decent weather. At least around here, it's useful to have more robust tyres in the winter due to punctures from road grit/flints, and it'll save wear on your nicer wheels. Although as MadDad mentioned, a winter bike is also a good idea.

[TwistingMyMelon]

Depends where you are and how bad the roads get/how much winter riding you do

If you are doing some decent rides in Winter , then I would swap them Nov-Feb

When I was in London, I noticed no difference in wheel wear through Winter, but out in the sticks a winter can wreck the wheels! I run cheap ones that cost £120


A mate of mine bought a CX bike as a winter bike for £750! His justification was that last winter wrecked his DuraAce wheels and it was cheaper to buy a winter bike than replace them!

[S10GTA]

pablo said:

we had a very mild winter here in the south

Did we? I must have missed that. The previous year was mild, this one wasn't.

[anonymous-user]

S10GTA said:

pablo said:

we had a very mild winter here in the south

Did we? I must have missed that. The previous year was mild, this one wasn't.

Rule 5

I cycled to work thorughout most of the winter and can only remember two or three really cold days that necessitated my cheap ski gloves. Here in Bristol there was perhaps two/three days of light snow and I can honestly only remember scraping ice off the windscreen on a handful of ocassions.

[TwistingMyMelon]

Last winter was mildish for me

Winter before was very mild, maybe one day of frost! Last winter a fair few

Winters a few years back were very harsh at times for UK, I remember 3 weeks of snow out in sticks

[okgo]

Difference between those two sets of wheels hardly night and day I doubt but it would make sense to use the cheap ones in bad weather.

[E65Ross]

I can't remember last winter much.... I was in hospital all of December and a bit of January and was a bit of a zombie until mid to late Feb anyway

Makes sense to use the old wheels if it'll save wear and tear on the RS80s. I can use heavier wheels and more puncture resistant tyres for winter so it'll feel great when I put the RS80s back on!

[S10GTA]

E65Ross said:

I can't remember last winter much.... I was in hospital all of December and a bit of January and was a bit of a zombie until mid to late Feb anyway

Makes sense to use the old wheels if it'll save wear and tear on the RS80s. I can use heavier wheels and more puncture resistant tyres for winter so it'll feel great when I put the RS80s back on!

Your actually doing it wrong. What you need is a winter bike

HTH.

[E65Ross]

S10GTA said:

Your actually doing it wrong. What you need is a winter bike

HTH.

I'd love another bike but can't justify the cost right now!

[TwistingMyMelon]

E65Ross said:

I can't remember last winter much.... I was in hospital all of December and a bit of January and was a bit of a zombie until mid to late Feb anyway

Makes sense to use the old wheels if it'll save wear and tear on the RS80s. I can use heavier wheels and more puncture resistant tyres for winter so it'll feel great when I put the RS80s back on!

Yeah that's another good point, you can leave winter tyres on one set.

With any luck your indexing will stay the same, so its pretty easy to then swap over wheels

Glad you are on the mend, I followed your thread in the Health forum

[Barchettaman]

As an aside to your original question, Ross, it's fantastic to hear that you're feeling better and are back in the saddle. I hope the post-op recuperation and recovery is going well!

[E65Ross]

Thanks guys, pretty much determined that I'll change the wheels November.

Recovery is going well and cycling has come back REALLY quickly. 154 miles last week and pace isn't too bad either.

Plan on 60 miles tomorrow