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Araya road rims, some of them, had abbreviated bead hooks that were mere semi-circular nubs, and many a tire blew off of these rims as the bead hook failed to retain the bead. I had both folding and wired-on tires blow off these rims ...
...+1 The later manufactures have been fine IME. If these are hard anodized, I suspect they are of a later origin.