Trail riding is all about saving energy on the climbs so you can enjoy the descents even more and when well designed carbon wheels can perform brilliantly at both however weve heard plenty of feedback from riders that carbon wheels can often perform badly in vertical compliance which translates into difficult steering and loss of traction and controldynamic with the best balance of lateral stiffness and vertical compliancefull carbon rim offers great lateral stiffnessenhanced fiber lay up gi