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Forgive me coming back to the "hookless" claim that I keep coming across in reviews of these wheels.
This pair of descriptions:
"The top end Allroad Pro UST Disc comes in at $1100/1000€, with a 22mm internal width and hookless profile designed to offer wide support for 28-45mm wide tires. These premium aluminum wheels use Mavic’s ISM4D machining that cuts away all of the excess material away from the 21mm deep rim, while leaving reinforcing around the spoke holes and at the bead. They also get bladed aero Zircal alloy spokes to save weight (20 front, 24 rear), with their nipples threaded directly into the reinforced rim. That gets down to a claimed 1610g for the complete wheelset."
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"Coming down to a $800/750€ price point, the Allroad Elite UST wheels share much of the same tech as the Pros. They get the same 22mm wide rim, again ISM4D machined down to save weight and with nipples threaded directly into it, but now with conventional bladed stainless steel spokes. The modular hubs are again the same, yielding a total wheelset weight of 1720g."
Granted, these descriptions seem to be referring to heavier disc-brake wheelsets, but why would the rim-brake version have a different (hooked) bead?
And as for the Open Pro UST rims, they have 19mm inside width versus 22mm inside width for these clearance-priced Allroad wheelsets.
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