And a little fun with the thread title. Hooked wheels in bike races almost always end up a bad situation. Hooked wheels - what happens when a rider in front but not clear of the bike behind moves over to directly in front; placing his rear wheel where the front wheel of the bike behind is. Tires touch, perhaps hard, QRs can rip out spokes. End result is very frequently the following rider crashing; often taking out the next 1-5 riders. Now if we could just get novice racers to ride "hookless wheels", ie wheels that always ride straight in their proper lanes, racing would be much safer!

I managed to pull out an upright stop after having that hooking wheel's QR take out 8 consecutive spokes on that side. With hookless Weinmann Concave rims. (1979) The grace - those were perhaps the stiffest side-to-side rims ever made. The wheel still went through the fork (just barely; taking the brand new Imron to pare metal)

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