Originally Posted by 12XU
In total agreeance...except for the last statement, which I can refute with the Bontrager XXX Lite wheels, the strongest rim/wheelset in the line-up and utterly bombproof for racing and training alike; I doubt they've been put through a bunny hop test however. Where some Zipp rims and wheels are flex city and wouldn't be fit for anything but racing, some are actually engineered with miles of training in mind.
And what happens when one gets tacoed(do carbon rims even taco or just snap?) botrager doesn't offer any sort of crash replacement so what do you do? What about structural damage from getting run into a curb or something. Do you have to replace them even if they aren't visibly cracked?
Riding any $2500+ wheelset around is indeed stoop-ed for almost everyone. The type of rich you'd have to be for the performance benefit to be worth the cost of $1200 or more to replace a wheel after a crash is beyond most of our comprehension.