How Good Are These £3k Wheels!? * BLACK INC FIVE REVIEW * [not an ad] 

Tyre pressure calculator: info.silca.cc/silca-professional-pressure-calculator

YES, we the people want to see Chanel do many reviews as possible.

Finally a wheel that is easy to clean!

Let the people hear Chanel's bike expertise. The people demand it.

Chanel, ffs just do a review already! we're waiting for the longest time!

Yes Chanel MUST definitely review something soon. One of the best videos ever was the review of your Canyon bike.

Yes we want Chanel to do a review of kind of anything! New video idea: "how aero is a baby? UNBELIEVABLE wind tunnel results!"

Chanel's review of your Katusha bike is one of the best and funniest cycling reviews on RU-vid, she should really do more

Ironically, during my ride this morning, I was wondering when the next Chanel review would be! Then I watched this video, and the comments are absolutely clear….

Chanel needs to review anything at all she wants to. Loved this vid. Love this vid - thanks Alex!

Five spoke wheels are revisited every few years. I actually like the look of 5 spoke wheels probably from my old bmx days. If the rigidity increased and you don't have to worry about spoke tension its a plus. Black Inc should gift you the wheels Alex the cost to them is small for your exposure by just riding them outside of racing.

I would love to see to Chanel do more videos about the thermomix. I saw her do one last year and because of her we bought one. It has been life changing. Keep the videos coming.

To be fair, for a wheel of that complexity it's quite competitive with the good carbon wheels on sale. Still can't afford them . They are cool looking though !! Can see the hill climbing guys using them.

Your reviews are great. Chanel’s are on another level. She MUST make a comeback.

Nice review @Alex Dowsett. Since this is non UCI, I'm guessing it can be used in triathlons! Now to find that sort of money!!

Chanel, give the people what they want.

Upvote, just because you said Kamm tail :) Loved the video. Spot on. Now go get that hour record!

Seated sprints ✅ Standing sprints ✅ 150km Sportive ✅ 4000+ meters of climbing ✅ Ridden to the café ✅🥇☕️👈 This is the most important content as it’s where these wheels will no doubt spend most of their life. Cycling can be a fashion accessory. Don’t worry about the performance, do they look good outside the coffee shop? 👀👍

Just thought though - if they aren’t UCI sanctioned wheels then the spokes also don’t need to be 3:1, right?

God, that Mavic wheel is gorgeous! 😍

What an amazing channel discovery! Congrats from Spain!

Anything reviewed by Chanel is of great interest: an egg, a spoon or a sock. Her style will make it fascinatingly hilarious.

Nice wheels honest review, did wonder what the politics of tour riders reviewing bike tech was like, though I did think BMX when I first saw them.

Yes please to Chanel reviews about anything :-)

I would love to see a video of you reviewing video footage of you doing seated sprints :) , seriously I would love to see more reviews like this.

Alex, where is the link for the tyre pressures?

So similar to Aerospokes, stiff with lots of road feel. Great assessment of these cool wheels. I wonder if they will ever be available for rim brakes.

Did you finally get a tripod? If so, perhaps Chanel can review that. Also are you at altitude? Not sure I've heard it mentioned recently.

More in the aero part….. that almond shape you drew replicates an airplane wing to a degree. The upper half of the wing on a plane is more rounded than the bottom. Why? High pressure seeks low pressure, so, the air over the top of the wing has a longer distance to travel to meet up with the airflow speeding almost straight across the bottom. The result is a lower pressure on top of the wing and higher pressure on bottom, thus high seeks low (high pressure below wants to meet up with low pressure above) and creates lift. They also use something called Bernoulli’s principal. As air is squeezed pressure drops and velocity increases, and vice versa. That’s why the upper half of the wing is more rounded than the bottom. Apply Bernoulli’s principal to high and low pressure, and this is what makes planes fly, and the bike industry has copied for decades. Tube and wheel shaping is literally playing around with these 2 principals to maximize aerodynamic efficiency within UCI rules if that’s what they’re following.

Priced perfectly for the target audience (62-year old lawyers looking to beat their dentist buddies on a week end group ride).

Hey. Thanks for e review. Hear u abt the wheels being aero.. but any experience in cross winds? How did they handle in those situations...as its said that such wheels tend to succumb to cross winds more easily versus regular spoked wheels.

Literally drooled on... Can't return them for hygienic reasons in a pandemic.

Wonderful review! Those wheels made you happy!

Nice review although they’re not in my price range. Yes to more Chanel reviews if that’s possible.

Hoping you do a review on the new Factor Slick when you get it.

This could be the answer to disc brakes applying braking forces through the spokes. This is i feel is a big negative to the disc brake design. As to the wheel letting go, remember a spoke wheel has sideways flex, on purpose to act like suspension to maintain the tyre contact with the ground, over bumps and undulations as a road bike has no suspension. Interesting wheel, thanks for the review.

He mentioned they're aero but how does that compare to the deeper section Forty Five or Sixty wheelsets? The benefits of the Five include lower weight and more stiffness. The traditional spoked deeper section wheels are clearly more compliant but are they more aerodynamic?

Nice improvement for the stability and the audio 🙂

Nice review Alex. Could u pls inform Black Inc that my 63rd Birthday 🎂🍰🍷🍸 is in Mid August & l could put them 2 Gr8 use. Unfortunately l dont ride a Factor Road Bike. ❤ the Factor climbing road bike in black with the Factor Logo in multi colors. Awesome 👀👀👀 Road Bike. Thx 4 sharing Alex.

I’d love a set, so when your finished with them just pop um in the post ta! Maybe not there is no way to attach my speed sensor.

Hang on a second... Are you using osymetric chainrings?

couldnt you use them in an uphill TT ?

Old school slide rule caliper! Not many people can read those accurately after the invention of dials and digital readouts.

Obviously since there is only one mold and you are trying to supply the whole World you need to price them so you can keep up with demand. I'm sure they did the analysis and figured out just where to price them and they don't want every BMX'r wanting them for their single speeds. But the serious Ironman would have no problem dropping the cash. I do think for several reasons the UCI is correct in not allowing these types of wheels. Pretty good coverage of your opinion of these wheels though Alex.

the bike ahead wheels are also pretty popular but this looks like its much more stronger and lighter.

I think Xentis Mark 3 SL are the best of both worlds. Aero and lightweight.

Moto-Mags for the masses....how long before the Yoeleo or Winspace versions show up?

hey alex thoughts about the maxxis high road sl are they better or the same as the gp5000s?

unreal video, such a good take over it but woof, goodbye ear drums with that between scene music!

I'm at the point where iv snapped my front wheels 3 times a month from me pushing extremely hard into a corner at 70+ kmh and it goes bang about 3kms up the road

You forgot the tyre pressure calc? 😬🙏

Those wheels look pretty cool

watching this before a ride

Look it's simple; there are less spokes to clean. I'm in

from my psychology classes the number of times Alex said it’s not advertising makes me think it is :)

Expensive but absolutely gorgeous 🤩 The craftsmanship that have gone into those wheels are out of this world. No wonder they are expensive

"ceramic spread such a nice touch" Uses an Ambini BB with NTN bearings🤭

That's a wheelie nice video Mr Dowsett

Great video. Does anyone know if these are as or more aero then the black inc forty five wheels and are they as comfortable? Thx

I'm only here for Chanel's reviews!

Please do the section "Channel Reviews cycling stuff"!

What are the Maxxis tubeless tyres called......any good?

Can we get more reviews for this one year later?

Yea but you don't have to pay a specialist to Lace up your spokes so the cost should be closer to the 60 mm set surely ???

Sadly I'm nudging the max rider weight limit on these, a good incentive to get out riding and drop the kgs :)

How much saddle to bar drop do you have?

And when the wind is anything other than straight?

They look awesome

Is it legal to use in time trials?

Cmon Chanel, it'll be excellent

Can the hub or the bearings be exchanged?

Some bugger gave u the thumbs down Alex.. guess they got out of bed the wrong way. Send'em a hug & kiss so the feel better about themselves. ❤'re ur wife's review of road bike a while back. Cheers

Have you got a comb

we could all push our equipment to the limit if we had an unlimited cache of fancy wheels.

You could say you lost them, and send them my way LOL

more Chanel for sure

Long way from GP4's progress??

The whole UCI regulations thing is such a bummer for the average consumer. Who, let's face it will probably never compete in a sanctioned event. I always wonder what our bikes would look and ride like if engineers had no constraints placed on their designs.

How do you straighten them if they go out of true?

Does this wheelset support SH 12 speeds?

Osymetrics?

Yup don’t know what you talking about mate, we ain’t got no 5 spokes. 😁

Skyway tuff mags

If I win the giveaway , I should buy a tt bike. Oh.. wait, there's no giveaway.

“What I dodo is push”

There're cheapo variants of these, i reckon they've used the same mold with better material..

Code doesn't work anymore. :(

Over 3k EUR for a wheel I cannot race on. Nahhhh. Get UCI to release it and we can talk again.

It's been a year...would you sell those to me please? I am serious, please let me know.....

Chanel could review a sheet of white paper, your view count would still increase

This appears to be the ONLY video on youtube about these wheels. They must be crap wheels if no one else is bothered to make a review on them.

Hahaha deriving the price from effort, instead of designing it to market prize 🤣

Your baby proves that carbon fiber lust is genetic.

its costs 100 $ to produce.

too bad about the disk brakes

1380gr for 3000 pounds? LOL

Go Chanel

This is one of those form over function things for me unfortunately. Light?, Fast? Ok, but really not pretty and straight off a kids BMX 😬 It’s one of those times when I praise the UCI rules for keeping the sport looking traditional. Also nothing against Black Inc. wheels - the normal ones look great 🤷‍♂️

This is some low ass video and audio quality for 2021

And comes with shitty bearings :p