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You can also get Carbon fiber rims, they don't get out of true. I ride WEAREONE carbon rims on my mountain bike and they are solid.
That's not true at all. Whoever told you that lied to you.
I guess if you want to get really crazy they might but at that point cracking would be more of an issue. I imagine that the levels at which carbon rims bend and don't return is so far outside the realm of normal riders that it isn't really a factor.
Carbon doesn't deform like aluminum and I get that it is a trade off between compliance and stiffness but as long as they aren't super light XC rims they should be strong. I went back and read 5 or 6 carbon rim reviews on Pinkbike and truing was never a problem. Cracking or poor manufacturing can be be an issue though.
Saw this quote when I was looking around to see if what I said was wildly wrong:
Jason Marsh the mechanic of Greg Minaar 2012/2021 DH World Cup Champion about ENVE DH rims, he said that, ”Once you have built them, you don’t need to do anything, the spokes remain tight and they don’t need truing