Originally Posted by
veganbikes
Wider tires at lower pressure will help greatly and building a strong wheel will also help. Ultralight stuff is fine and dandy for smooth stuff under really light riders on light bikes but if you are breaking wheels often you need to find a stronger combo but running wide tires really helps a lot.
If you look at the tire pressure guide at Silca or several other sites you would discover that larger tires are not much lower in pressure than narrow tires. the contact patch is controlled by your weight and not the tire size so to hold the size and shape of that patch the tire pressures have to be pretty close, Because of the conditions of the roads in the US now, Campy has started making wheels much stronger. I broke Neurons a couple of times and had to switch to Campy's stronger Neutrons. Wheels and/or spokes breaking entirely disappeared with deep carbon wheels. And braking had no loses under clincher carbon wheels with aluminum braking surfaces. I no longer even make an attempt at tubeless tires since they are heavier than a normal clincher tire with a tube in them.