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Yeah that sounds like an ideal setup.
When you say coming down lots of hills, what sort of elevation would you consider that ride to be so it's challenging in terms of breaking on carbon rims? Would it be something over 5k feet or below?
Also, maybe something worth mentioning but I'm not too heavy at around 70kg, that might make a difference?
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It's more about individual hills than the total. Especially if it's wet. Certain hills can be shorter but shitter because of steepness or traffic lights. I mean, there's nothing around London that will challenge their heat capacity or anything, it's more that it sucks white knuckle gripping the levers for 30 seconds before you even start slowing down and doing that multiple times in a ride.
Sumo
I know what you mean, I have the same setup, a carbon bike with carbon wheels for racing/sunny rides and caadx with fatter tyres and mudguards for commuting/rain. But there's still times I want to bring out the carbon bike with some more practical wheels because it may rain, or going up/down lots of hills etc.