I have a pair of old Derby DH carbon rims. They are super stiff and break spokes quite often and it is a huge headache to dismantle a perfectly good tubeless setup to replace spokes. Last summer I switched to WR1s and haven't broken a spoke since. I'd guess that new carbon is more compliant and easier to live with and I bet a lot of the new alloy rims are much tougher than the ones that caused many of us to shift to carbon in the first place.
March 17, 2021, 11:57 a.m. - Cr4w
I have a pair of old Derby DH carbon rims. They are super stiff and break spokes quite often and it is a huge headache to dismantle a perfectly good tubeless setup to replace spokes. Last summer I switched to WR1s and haven't broken a spoke since. I'd guess that new carbon is more compliant and easier to live with and I bet a lot of the new alloy rims are much tougher than the ones that caused many of us to shift to carbon in the first place.