Originally Posted by highrpm

Last weekend I was riding with my wife and boys at the local park. My six year old wasn't paying attention when I slowed and ran into my bike. He bent my wheel slightly. I adjusted the spokes to get it back to nearly straight again.


I was thinking about that wheel, and how I have been considering an upgrade to a set of Ebay carbon wheels.


I wonder how a carbon wheel would have fared against a kid and his bicycle?