Originally Posted by
terrymorse
I doubt that. Do you have any references to support this claim that tubeless tire beads are stronger?
I’ve inspected the beads on tubes and tubeless tires of the same model tire. I saw nothing in the bead structure that would suggest a difference in blow off resistance.
Yes. People were reporting clincher tire/hooked rim combinations where the tire was almost impossible to install on or remove from the rim decades ago, long before tubeless tires and rims showed up on the market. I remember sometime in the 1980s listening to a sales rep for a tire manufacturer who claimed that if his tire was giving us problems, we were just using the wrong technique. So I handed him the tire and wheel in question and asked him to show us the correct technique. After struggling with the tire and wheel for 15 minutes, he gave up.