Most people who have ridden a set of Mavic's Cosmic Carbone wheels swear by them. They are solid, fairly aerodynamic, and bombproof. It's my favorite Mavic wheel.
Ksyriums make less sense to me. They aren't particularly light, or aero, or a great value. I still don't quite get the big aluminum spokes. But they are very popular.
The R-Sys is supposed to not only be stiffer than the Ksyriums, but the spokes are supposed to resist compression as well as elongation. Unfortunately, it also seems that they have a PR problem. There are a number of images floating around on the internet of nasty crashes with an R-Sys completely exploding. Some of these crashes were precipitated by rider error or prior damage to the wheel. Whatever the cause, there aren't many wheels that you ever see do this...
It will be interesting to see how this develops.
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