Road Wheels & Road Wheel Recommendations?

So now you're directly contradicting everything you said before?

I keep forgetting the failings of the school system... More = beyond 36 or 40 spokes.

Disregarding your obviously trolling and verbose repetitiveness, you completely missed the point of my post. ∞ spokes = disc wheel, the only choice for a rear wheel where not prohibited by regulation.

Disc wheels are not wheels with infinite numbers of spokes. Traditional disk wheels are spoked wheels with a foam core and covered in a laminate. In the old days it was popular to cover regular spoked wheels with a mylar cover. The best current designs tend to use synthetic fibers such as Aramide (Kevlar) to build a tensile structure. The most interesting disc wheel I've ever seen was one a friend developed with the French. It used an interesting combination of fibers to make a wheel almost without dish--- literally when viewed from the front it seemed to hide behind the seat-tube. The wheel was completly tuned to the bicycle frame--- and it weighed, if I recall correctly, under 600g.

Here is a picture of a spoked version:

What do the best disc wheels offer over the best deep section wheels? Under ideal conditions @ 50 kmh the tests I've seen tend to put the number at something like 5 watts (I don't recall what the above disc got but it was a special case where the wheel/frame and other components were matched to cyclist etc.). This is, of course, a significant magnitude for an Olympic track event but ....