Originally Posted by
elcruxio
The advantages of hookless are purely in the manufacturing side. There are no advantages for the rider in terms of riding. I won't address the price thing because there has been a good amount of discussion on that already.
There are however disadvantages for hookless in terms of riding and use.
they aren't as safe as hooked.
This one's pretty self explanatory when you think about it. The tire and rim width combinations are extremely limited when compared to hooked. With hookless you have one rim doing one job, because there's so few tire widths you can use on a given rim width. With hooked you can use a narrow road tire and a wide gravel tire on the same rim.
The pressure limits are low. The tires can't hold on for more pressure, which isn't confidence inspiring.
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To your points above, it seems that many of the issues relate to the very wide rim widths being made hookless but for road riding (ie. 25mm ID widths). All of this for the supposed aero benefit.
From the below, a hookless rim with a 19mm ID width is supposedly compatible with every road tire width you'd probably ever want to be able to run, and supposedly, a 19mm rim width allows higher pressures than the 73psi bandied about all of the time.
