A clincher wheel uses a rim made for wire and folding tyres including an inner tube. Modern clincher rims are also suitable for riding with tubeless tyres (without an inner tube). A special tubeless tape is required, directly fitted into the rim.
There are clincher wheel rims made of aluminium or carbon. With carbon rims, there is a variant with an aluminium rim flange or a full carbon construction. Full carbon clinchers can also be suitable for disc brakes and then have no rim brake surface.