![]() This provides a big advantage when initiating or responding to acceleration on the flats, charging uphill, and sprinting out of corners. This is a highly competitive road disc wheelset for the company’s first all-carbon clincher offering.Īt the same time, there are a few things still lacking and that might not appeal to the less competitive, less handy rider that makes me think HED would have benefitted from making and getting carbon clincher experience a bit sooner.Ībove all, the Vanquish 4 is a supremely stiff wheelset. There’s a lot to like about the Vanquish 4. ![]() My fellow tester Miles, a successful P/1/2 racer who wins a lot, and I, a B-group rider who watches a lot of races on TV, evaluated the HED Vanquish 4, the 40mm deep all-around and shallowest of the new line which also includes 60 and 80mm deep models ![]() By not making these in a rim brake version, HED effectively avoided the engineering challenges other carbon wheelset makers went through to prevent overheating, delamination or blowouts from the heat created by rim braking. That has now changed with the introduction of the disc brake only HED Vanquish carbon clincher wheelsets. One of the first to sell wheels using toroid shaped, deep-section rims to gain aero advantage over 10 years ago, the company had only used their patented design for tubular or carbon-alloy wheelsets. It would be an understatement to say HED Cycling took a while to offer an all-carbon clincher wheelset. This review of the HED Vanquish 4 wheelset appears alongside reviews of other all-around carbon disc brake wheelsets in my post The Best All Around Carbon Disc Wheelset.
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