Again no experience with carbon wheels...and don't expect to ever have any. I'm over 80 and still ride pretty old bikes at least 50 miles a week in the summer and when ever during the winter. Boulder is nice W.R.T. snow and cold. I also have a trainer set up in my basement that gets a workout. My gravel bike is a Ritchey Breakaway that has ridden many a pass in the Dolomites, French alps, and Spanish Par... Have slowed down but only a little. Bike riding is still the best exercise...Deanster04