Originally Posted by
Atlas Shrugged
As the doomsayers and chicken littles are predicting death and carnage on our streets, the tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of hookless riders are out there enjoying their bikes and doing epic things. The incidents of blowoff of a properly installed hookless tire system are effectively unheard of. The typical skeptics are at a greater risk of spontaneous combustion while sitting in their recliners.
On mountain bikes and even gravel bikes, sure. Low-pressure wide tires are made to order for hookless. That's how Schwinn got away with hookless rims, version 1.
Road tires with a 10-psi safety margin on hookless version 2: that's idiocy.