Road Wheels & Road Wheel Recommendations?

I am not familiar with Mssr Wiggens contract--- nor with the sponsoring contracts that Sky has entered into. From your comments, however, you are suggesting that Wiggens, beyond any contractual obligations to which I am not privy, may have violated UCI rules on the use of non-standard wheels. A HED deep section rim spoked to King or Tune hubs constitutes a "non-standard" wheel and must be first authorized by crash testing to be used in anything other than time trials. Only "traditional" wheels are exempt from model testing and a " traditional wheel is deemed to be a wheel with at least 16 metal spokes; the spokes may be round, flat or oval, provided that no dimension of their cross sections exceeds 2.4 mm; the section of the rim must not exceed 2.5 cm on each side. (UCI). The HED S3 rim is 33mm deep-- and the others are deeper. There is no such wheel on the UCI list. The HED Stinger 4,5,6,7 and 9 wheels are on the list but these are "as supplied and tested", e.g. a custom wheel built by someone else does not come under the approval. Did Wiggens/Sky again violate UCI equipment rules--- which were also violated at the Olympic games?

That's not how the rules work.

"non-standard wheels (rims higher than 2.5 cm, fewer than 16 spokes, spoke thicknesses of over 2.4 mm). If any of these conditions is noted, the wheel is deemed to be a non-standard wheel and must have passed a rupture test in order for it to be authorised for use in competition. "

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