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BUT, and Martin will correct me if I'm wrong, I'm sure -- absolutely always make sure your tires are properly inflated. I don't have any personal experience with carbon rims, but I got a rear flat once and while trying to get safely to the side of the road I ran over one of those Botts dots on the freeway -- and it bent my OEM aluminum rim.moto said:BST makes a DOT/JWL/TUV approved street carbon fiber wheel.
That was reparable (thank you Frame Man!), but I shudder to think about spending $2000 (+/-) on a BST rim getting a tire puncture and then hitting someting innocuous like a highway dot and doing irreparable damage to the rim.
On the other hand, my SS had a carbon-fiber race gas tank for many years. I crashed it, and the front end hit hard enough to bend the fork. That impact drove the clip-on into the gas tank hard enough to cause the left control block to explode into lots of lovely little plastic bits -- and the tank didn't have so much as a scratch. So that carbon fiber stuff is plenty strong.