Now I was willing to accept this if you wanted something special. Mud tyres or spikes or combination road / gravel tyres or even doing 45° angle corner leans at 80kph down Alpe d’Huez or whatever but surely, SURELY, for just going A to B in an paved enviroment it wouldn’t matter?
Yeah no turns out the premium shit does feel great and rolls better. I can never return.
Unfortunately I didn’t know this and ended up not servicing my hubs on my road bike until it was too late and the cup was pitted. I still repacked it and replaced the balls, but a new hub is in order if I get back to riding that bike. It’s also probably about time for me to service the hubs on my mountain bike now that I think about it, they get a lot more abuse.