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Old 11-02-2024, 12:09 PM
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How to prevent a pinch flat is simple. Inflate with enough air pressure. When the side wall completely collapses you get a pinch flat. Solution is to use enough air to support this collapse. Hooked or hookless is irrelevant.
... except that hookless rims have lower pressure limits than hooked rims, so the pressures required to prevent pinch flats may be above the limit.
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Old 11-02-2024, 12:14 PM
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... except that hookless rims have lower pressure limits than hooked rims, so the pressures required to prevent pinch flats may be above the limit.
So by using hookless rims you create a pinch flat possibility? Why would anyone use a rim that increases the occurrence of flats? That logic escapes me.
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Old 11-02-2024, 01:14 PM
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Are they 'pinch flats' or 'burps'..With tubeless, I think the later..
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Old 11-02-2024, 01:31 PM
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Are they 'pinch flats' or 'burps'..With tubeless, I think the later..
For sure. It's seemed odd to read and type 'pinch flat' for tubeless.
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Old 11-02-2024, 01:39 PM
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How to prevent a pinch flat is simple. Inflate with enough air pressure. When the side wall completely collapses you get a pinch flat. Solution is to use enough air to support this collapse. Hooked or hookless is irrelevant.
This is another "if youve never missed a flight you are spending too much time in airports". Rather than trying to completely eliminate the possibility of pinch flats, it might make more sense to balance acceptable probability of pinch flat- and not to mention rim damage- with tire volume and pressure considerations. Having a rounded edge gives you a bit more margin.

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Old 11-02-2024, 06:38 PM
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Decades ago a very experienced rider told me the reason I was getting so many pinch flats was because I didn’t get my ass up off the saddle. He was right. I don’t think anything‘s changed.
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Old 11-02-2024, 07:46 PM
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No kidding..Hooked, then hookless, now 'double hook'...what's next? 'Hookah'?

Gotta be to come up with some of this stuff..
Let me introduce you this new cutting edge technology called rimless hookset.
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Old 11-03-2024, 05:32 AM
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First it was one hook. Then it was no hooks, and now two hooks.

I'm holding out until they start putting hooks on the outside of the rim.
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Old 11-03-2024, 05:40 AM
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First it was one hook. Then it was no hooks, and now two hooks.

I'm holding out until they start putting hooks on the outside of the rim.
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Old 11-03-2024, 02:43 PM
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Pinch flat/snake bite on tubeless mtb/garvel/road --it's a thing.
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Old 11-03-2024, 04:24 PM
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First it was one hook. Then it was no hooks, and now two hooks.

I'm holding out until they start putting hooks on the outside of the rim.
You forgot "mini hooks" which were a thing for a minute, maybe still.
And this is just the post clincher era.
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