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09 02 09 - 20:21 If you were one of the suckers who bough the R-Sys, these are the wheels you'll be riding while Mavic sort out the self-destruct button on their front wheels. After you've used them for a while, you won't notice the extra pound and a half of weight, but you will notice the vastly superior aerodynamics, and maybe wonder whether you actually want the expensive wheels back (which are likely to get heavier in the process of being redesigned to stand up to normal use) The French flag is only half the story, as these wheels only got to be so cheap that Mavic could give them away free to victims of the R-Sys by being assembled in Romania, but the Rhone-Poulenc alloys and dodgy FTS-L freehub bush are as French as all the other Mavic road race wheels. The skewers have a distincly generic look and feel, which is hardly surprising when the very good BR-601 QRs retail at half the price of the complete Aksium wheel set.
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