What's with these ass backward poor logic posts saying "my friends and I have been riding hookless for x years and never had a downhill tire blow-off, so hookless is fine"?
The point is not how frequent downhill sudden flats are. Flats are rare and flats that just happen to coincidentally occur during a downhill are even rarer, because most of our riding minutes are not on downhills. The point is, what happens IF it occurs.
Neither you nor anyone you know have ever been in an airplane crash. Plane crashes are extremely rare, far rarer than downhill tire flats. If someone says you have a choice of two airplanes to fly in, a normal plane, or a plane with some safety features reduced because it was cheaper for Boeing to make, the world would rightly call you a moron if you chose the less safe plane on purpose.
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- If the two plane tickets are the same cost, then you're a moron.
- If the less safe plane ticket is cheaper and you chose it to save money, then you're tighter than a dolphin's ass, cares more about money than your own safety
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Either way it doesn't shine a good light on you.