TaylorAllen

@Geoff-Smith: That's not entirely true. All major carbon wheel manufacturers adhere to UCI safety regulations that in the event of an impact the carbon hoop cannot completely explode and must retain a [mostly] round shape. My Zipp 303 cracked, but did not explode, when I got hit by a van this spring and the Zipp rep explained their testing procedures to me when I showed him the damage. They do various "curb" tests that involve front-on collisions, lateral impacts, blowing tires off, etc and they must retain integrity and not splinter completely. Pretty interesting structural engineering in fact. Real old carbon like the tri-spoke Spinergy wheels, or bad batches of Shimano's recent Pro Trispoke (seeing a theme with tri-spoke wheels) gave carbon a bad name. Most modern carbon wheels will fail similarly or under much harsher conditions than aluminum and could be trusted. Just maybe not here in the comment section of pinkbike.

His name doesn't have an umlaut in it.