Originally Posted by
WolfgangVerne
The carbon wheelset may not be many's first choice, but the wheels are black, they're light, and they're aero.
A friend had similar rims, and rim brakes. At the top of one hill, his rims were fine. By the time we reached the bottom of the hill, one rim was warped. Luckily the tyre didn't pop out. We all rolled warily to a station, packed our bikes and went home. Appearance (and wind resistance and weight) be damned: at least for use with rim brakes, I'd rather have bog standard, box-section aluminium rims than carbon fibre rims.