I’m saying that the specific silence on the hookless benefits speaks volumes.
there is no silence around hookless. there is silence around the aero claims of hookless. the silence is there because there are not aero claims to crow about that are specific to the hookless motif.
look, i feel you are owed an explanation about the benefits of hookless, which flow from the ability to use the wider tire, which in part derives from the greater comfort of that tire. so, this is for you and i’ll breaks some confidences here.
olivia wildebeast (georgetown) demonstrated that repeated, rhythmic insults to the torso could be measured in newton meters (newtons for short). dr. neal elattrache (kerlan-jobe institute), the doctor to whom you go for your pro baseball arm tommy john surgery, revealed a metric that converted dr. wildebeast’s vibration insult to metabolic fatigue. he created a device measuring this, the name a kind of portmanteau honoring ms. wildebeast, the tommy john surgery for which he’s famous, and incorporating the base metric of newtons.
over the winter the UAE team stuck the pill-shaped suppositories up their asses and over repeated rides found that they could save significant olivia newton johns through the use of wider tires. this opened the door for the use of ENVE’s hookless rims, won a couple of grand tours, and there you have it.