Originally Posted by 79pmooney

Well, there's choosing components that work well for their intended use. Manufacturers should be helpful here but there is a long history in bicycling and elsewhere where they aren't. Knowledgeable shops are an asset. So is buyer awareness. I am often wondering "why don't ...". Here, why don't rim manufactures give a biggest recommended tire along with max seating pressure allowable for that rim? (Maybe they do. I haven't done tubeless and have in fact gone away from clincher tires entirely.)

Of course, required seating pressure is a function of both the rim and tire. The rim manufacturer has no say in the latter.

Or ... maybe some bright engineer needs to come up with a non-air pressure means of seating tubeless tires; allowing bigger tubeless tires for marginal rims. Perhaps in 20 years, folk will be saying "remember when they use to inflate tubeless tires to insane pressures to seat those beads? All the blown sidewalls and eardrums? Thank God we have our BeadSeater." Or ... ding, ding! You could remove the flanges entirely, make the entire rim a little bigger in diameter to raise up the lower portion to use existing tire sizes, then glue! a tire that's already been sewn or formed into a tube. No rim failures at any pressure. With all the modern adhesives, this should be easy.