oifovo
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I don't think that the wheel would not withstand track use if it has been designed and made properly. Tracks tend to be fairly smooth (well the majority anyway). The biggest advantage of carbon fiber is its strength vs flexibility ratio. It takes a lot to actually break the fiber, normally it will just bend and return back. The biggest issue is that as soon as you damage even a relatively small number of fibers the overall strength decreases radically and the wheel will be very difficult if not impossible to repair! The easiest way to actually damage carbon fiber is to cut it or hit it with a sharp object. This is why you can see so many carbon fiber road bikes and not so many mountain bikes - you can ride thru as many potholes as you like on a cf road bike and the frame is going to soak it up with no issues, fall off a mountain bike and hit a sharp rock and you can kiss your cf mountain bike frame goodbye, I have seen quite a few. So, I would happily use the wheels as long as they have been carefully designed and properly built and of course if I had disposable $12000, 
BTW, I'm wondering what would your local City Council say if you send them the bill for your new tyre and cf wheel that you have damaged in their pothole....
BTW, I'm wondering what would your local City Council say if you send them the bill for your new tyre and cf wheel that you have damaged in their pothole....
