Carbon wheelset - advice please, particularly lightbicycle/other Chinese carbon

[Animo]

A very valid point, and one I did in fact consider and last year when I took a bike to Italy with exalith rims, chickened out and went for butyl tubes instead. Last thing I want is a blowout when travelling at a decent speed downhill.
I don't think the width thing is a major issue for me, I'm relatively lightish, and rode on 23s for ages, then eeked it up to 25s, and the widest I ride, gravel bike excluded, is 28mm.
I suspect the Allez would only go to 28s anyway.

Not heard of those specific wheels, but sounds like they might be similar to the Mavic Exalith ones, are they textured and require specific pads do you know?

You just need standard pads for carbon rims, they're different to ones for alloy rims. Swisstop Black Prince are one example but there are cheaper ones that are decent. Wiggle used to do some blue ones that were perfectly decent. Have bought what appear to be the same ones since with different branding.

With the grooved brake tracks you find they eat through the first set of pads quite quickly and then seem to settle down.

 

[Animo]

@ Dan Lotus - these are the guys who Mark at Spokesman was getting his rims from. They might do you a budget set with a Novatec or Bitex hub that would be a bit cheaper than the DT Swiss ones. They do a grooved brake track model too.
https://carbonal.net/en-gb/collections/rim-brake-bike-carbon-wheels

 

[Dan Lotus]

Thanks very much Animo, plenty to be looking at, and I'll check out that Carbonal link as well - that name rings a bell too!
Also discovered that SuperTeam do a 'K' braking surface, which is ridged for improved performance and apparently cooling.