Comments on: Zwift Speed Tests: Wheel Ranking Charts

By: Bubu

Bubu — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 14:52:08 +0000

Chart doesn’t look realistic compared to irl datatests, but then again it’s Zwift so

By: Eric Schlange

Eric Schlange — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:34:30 +0000

In reply to John Cameron. Actually, it's the opposite of that, John. If you do less wattage, the time gaps get LARGER. So if one wheelset was 10% faster than another at 300W, it'll still be approximately 10% faster at 200W. But your 200W ride will take longer than the same ride at 300W, so the 10% gap will be bigger.

By: John Cameron

John Cameron — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:13:50 +0000

In reply to Tate Heart. This was answered a while back the ratings stay the same but the time difference is reduced as you've less wattage

By: Thorsten

Thorsten — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 07:44:32 +0000

Download of tables seems to be broken…

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:35:10 +0000

What happened to my Scott foil with her wheels?

By: Jerry Weiss

Jerry Weiss — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 18:59:10 +0000

It would be great to see these results on a scatter chart like you did with the TRON comparisons. Ditto for all the other speed tests. It’s perfect for selecting gear based on amount of flat/climbing expected. Thanks

By: Paul Himes

Paul Himes — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 21:19:14 +0000

Sorry if this is a weird question, but do you know if wheel weight has an effect on responsiveness of the bike to speed changes? I know wheel weight gets added in to bike weight and then rider + bike weight, so more weight means there is more power needed to fight momentum to speed up, but does it matter where that extra weight is?

I know some people who claim that going with disk wheels makes them lose sprints because it takes longer to spin up so they can’t respond to other people’s jumps fast enough. Other people I know claim that no, that’s not a thing, it’s just their mind associating some lag that’s always present with a specific effect that they recognize from riding in real life.

Is there a difference in time it takes to respond (basically how long it takes between when you jump on the pedals and how fast you get up to full speed in a sprint) on a full aero bike with disk wheels vs. say the Tron bike? If so, is that just due to the total extra weight of the bike meaning there’s more momentum you have to overcome or is it really that having heavy disk wheels has a bigger effect on this?

Thanks

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 22:29:03 +0000

So much for buying the Zipp 858/Super9 combo at level 45 then, seems the DT disc combo is faster anyway. Excellent insight as usual, thanks! =)

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 18:12:20 +0000

In reply to Ben. Where do you find the non-dicut version?

By: C harnish

C harnish — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 20:47:50 +0000

How does all this play out with drafting? So I recently made a bad choice of wheels for a hilly TT, realizing in the event that the flat gains way more than offset the climbing gains of an all around wheel like the ARC 62. It got me thinking, though, that in a race with a climb finish (not even epic) where you race on the flats in a pack, the lightest wheel is probably best if your intent is to ride in the pack. It also probably matter most if the finish in on a fast descent of a climb, where super tuck probably trumps the wheels.

Any thoughts?