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Originally Posted by dem
As a leading "ride gravel bike inappropriately" contender, I'd say carbon for sure. Rock gardens, baby head stream crossings, deep rail road ballast.. carbon just bounces stuff off with no damage, aluminum gets dinged and bent up. After 10,000+ abusive miles, the carbon rims are scratched up but still rocking.
Also make sure you're running tires about 1 cm wider than your rim OD, that will help protect the rims.
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Or it catastrophically fails (that’s dramatic for no longer being usable after identifying cracks) which is what happened in my case though I’ll admit it wasn’t the wheels that hit rocks but a handlebar and frame (not at the same time
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The handlebar was perhaps a bad example as i understand they probably aren’t designed to take hits from the side.
The frame though was a mountain bike and a rock jumped up and ruined the down tube.