You must be a tubular guy. :)

That's not guaranteed for hooked rims either. I've only ever had hooked rims, and I've had plenty of instances of sketchily trying to come to a stop while riding on naked metal or carbon. Mostly tubed, but also tubeless.

And anecdotally, some combinations of the new hookless rim/tire combinations apparently make it really hard to push the bead off the rim when you *want* to. Which suggests it may stay on better if you flat. This difficulty in breaking the bead is one of the more common complaints about tubeless and hookless in particular. I've heard it mostly about Enve rims (again, anecdotally).

I will say that regardless of any price difference (which is really small), the benefit of hooked is that currently you can run any tyres you want, which gives you more of a performance advantage than anything else people might quibble over like weight. The last thing we want to do is restrict tyre choice for our customers so we only make hooked rims currently.

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