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The most important is carbon wheels. Lowering the weight of the wheels makes it easier to turn them, especially uphill.



It’s only a slight improvement when accelerating. At steady state, the wheel weight is balanced out (half moves backwards, half moves forwards).

GCN have done some non-scientific experiments on their YouTube channel on this.

The biggest benefit to carbon wheels is you can make them deeper for less weight penalty (vs aluminium) which gives you a significant aero benefit.




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