Scott Addict Gravel 20 - Wheel upgrade recommendable?
Hello, for years I´m riding a Stevens Vapor Cyclocross bike and I want to get a new bike and use the Stevens for commuting/bad weather rides in the future. My local bike shop sells Stevens, Ridley and Scott and I found the Scott Addict Gravel 20 to basically tick all the boxes for me. It has a carbon frame, Sram Rival 1x13 electronic goupset and some carbon wheels.
The only thing I don´t really like about it is that the wheels (Syncros Capital 1.0 40) are only 23mm wide internally. Usually I would say I just get the bike, ride it a few months, and then decide whether I would want a new wheelset with more internal width.
But I live in Germany and here we can save quite a good amount of income tax when we get a bike through a bike-leasing company. And since a nice wheelset costs around 1/4 of the whole bike, if not more, I should make the decision before purchasing the bike and add the wheels directly to the bike-leasing.
Unfortunately I don´t have any options to test a wider wheel before I buy it, so I would really appreciate some input if on whether if it is worth it going for a wider wheelset.
I´m more of a heavier rider (~94 kg) and my usual routes look pretty much exactly the same as the Marly Grav race route, a mix of bad roads, farm tracks, forrest paths, very single lane forrest trails. No hills, no extreme rocky paths. Tire width 40-45mm.