Originally Posted by
PeteHski
Which tubeless tyres are NOT compatible with HOOKED rims?
The OP clearly stated that they are not interested in hookless rims at this point.
Yes. I just read the entire Bike Radar article and skimmed the other one. Didn't see anything about it being unsafe to use tubeless tires with hooked rims, but plenty about the reverse.
This non-sequitur from TC1's post was particularly puzzling:
"Some tubeless tires are safe on hooked rims, but not all of them.
https://www.bikeradar.com/features/h...road-tubeless/
For example, any Continental tire more than two years old is not hookless-compatible."
What does the fact that older Continental tires are not hookless compatible have to do with whether tubeless tires are safe on hooked rims?
Reiterating your question: which, if any, hookless-compatible tires are not safe to mount on hooked rims?
On the plus side, I learned from the Bike Radar article that the reason some rim manufacturers rushed into production of hookless road rim designs is that molding hooked carbon rims is more difficult and costly than extruding hooked aluminum rims.
By the way, I enjoyed the part of a DT statement in that article that included a sly dig at other manufacturers:
'
However, for road wheels, DT is committed to hooked rims. “For us, a more intensive manufacturing process is not an obstacle and within the R&D of new high-end wheels we have proven in measurements that there are no performance disadvantages in aerodynamics and rolling resistance,” says Eggert. '