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I also picked up some other wheels. I remember when my plan for this bike was to just clean up the 6400 groupset that it came with.
Obviously, I have a decision to make - I can't really justify keeping two sets of luxury 650C spoks around for one 650C bike. The Hed 3s are certainly a better wheel, but there's something really nice about the Spinergys on this frameset. They speak the same language: the blades resonate in both the beam and the fork, not only in the tapering, lightweight form but also in the material and its texture. Also, the decals match.
The Hed 3s aren't chopped liver but they just don't talk to the frame in quite the same way. I can acknowledge that they're a much better wheel - and much less likely to fail catastrophically - but I'm leaning heavily towards selling them and keeping the Spinergys.
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