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Mavic Cosmics perform quite well as complete wheels in spite of their square spokes, I'd expect Pillar's round cornered rectangles to be somewhere between those and the proper elliptical CX-Rays. Up against CX-Rays and Aerolites, though, the PSR-1432 has about 50% more cross section area for only 10% more frontal area, so you could build an equally stiff wheel with fewer Pillar spokes, which might offset the worse Cd. Right down among the nitty-gritty of marginal gains, the choice between 18 CX-Rays and 12 PSR-1432s might come down to correctly guessing the distribution of yaw angles you're going to encounter.