Road wheels on cross bike
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So a few threads ago, I asked if it’s feasible to put road wheels on my CX bike, with the idea of just being able to change out the wheels relatively quickly for different conditions.
Based on what I learned, I decided not to try to do it myself. Instead, my shop put a set of lightweight road wheels with a cassette that has some slightly higher gears for greater speeds. At this point, I haven’t taken the full plunge to narrow, highest pressure road tires — I put on 700×28 touring-ish tires for now, which I ran at 85psi today (seemed fine).
Anyway, the new wheels are Mavic ksyrium elite. They roll great, and I appreciate the extra gearing to try to keep up with my spouse on the downwind segments!
I haven’t tested how easy it will be to switch out the wheels yet. Turns out one of the Velocity Dyad wheels I have the cross tires mounted on had a bad spoke, so I left them at the shop for repair. I do know that the rim width is a little different, so I’ll need to adjust the brake cables every time when switching wheels. We’ll see how it goes!
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