New Aero Alloy Clinchers From Fulcrum For Cross & Road, Racing Quattros

Quattro? are these 4whl drive wheels?

The “great looking” thing about those decals is that it looks like they are removable.

Yah.. I mean the only thing that comes to mind is “why?”.. 1710g?

Not exactly comparable, but for $560 you can get a quite decent set of 22mm alloy clinchers that come in at 1320g. See http://www.revolutionwheelworks.com/REV-22.html

Not cardboard? Not interested.

The reason why 1710g wheel is the 35mm depth which for cross ic critical as it’s enough to keep the spokes out of the mud stoping the paddling effect. At that weight they are fairly competive for cross, but the question i would as is why the cross wheelset is not disk compatable, could it be due to campag only just releasing canti’s last season and again playing catch up to sram and shimano? i guess only time will tell.

Whatever they weigh- they will be true and running many years down the line. Fulcrum knows what they are doing.

This is the first ‘pre-built’ affordable wheelset that has my interest in a long time. I can buy them shipped to the US from the UK for less than $400 as of January, 2013. 35 mm deep rims with Campy/Fulcrum quality build. I was going to build myself some of the new wider Kinlin 29 deep by 23 wide rims or Hed ardennes rims on quality hubs, but that would cost more than these racing quattros even with my own free wheel build labor, not weigh much less, and would not be as aero. I think the rule of thumb is each 10 grams less aero drag at race speeds is worth 1 watt. I’ll trade 100 grams wheel weight to get 10 watts saved as many times as possible. I realize I won’t be getting an aero benefit like a hed stinger 9 or zipp 808 etc, but I won’t be spending a few thousand dollars either.

An upgrade from Fulcrum 7s – The 7s were great wheels for an OEM wheelset and the
Quattros are proving excellent value so far. I was thinking of going for a deeper rim on a wheelset but after riding these glad I stuck to a shallow rim of 35mm. For everyday use.

Its been quite windy here over the past week or so (30 – 40 kph) and the only time I’ve noticed any buffetting was when I had wind coming at me directly from one side – Any other direction they handled just like a shallow wheel