Originally Posted by Russ Roth

I ended up with some hookless MTB rims by accident, the price was cheap enough they weren't worth sending back. My distrust of hookless involves a lot of tire blow offs that left my ears ringing every time, but I figured I'd try them. For my kid's bike I installed the plain factory tires since they were new enough figuring the steel bead wouldn't stretch. I had to run a tube since they're no tubeless compatible but the tire remaining in place hasn't mattered, but I would agree, what works well at 25psi on a mtb isn't something I'm willing to trust either at 80psi on a road bike.


Unfortunately while taking that hammer to some tire/rim combos would be very therapeutic in the short term to beat a carbon rim into submission, there might be some regrets later