Why run a single beadlock, when you know you're going to burp air and have flat tires all the time? Just get dual beadlocks, Inner Air Locks, or hell, even innertubes.
I can assure you, I don't wheel my crawler at the mall, but with the TR's on it, that was about all it's good for, and a single seat 4ws crawler isn't much good for going to the mall. I actually have a set of TR beadlocks still. They are 20's. And have Inner Air Locks inside them, to keep the tires on the bead, and give a bump to keep the tire from pinching and cutting the tire.
Normally, I take the high road and won't argue like this about things, but with the amount of arrogance in here, it didn't seem prudent to explain that each product has a different purpose, and both are very good at that purpose.
People buy beadlocks for several reasons. One is to keep the tires on the rims at low air pressure. Inner Air Locks are excellent at this. Single beadlocks, TR or otherwise, are ok-ish at this. Another reason is to keep the tire from spinning on the rim, single beadlocks, TR or otherwise, are excellent at this. Inner Air Locks are ok-ish at this. Another reason is to look cool. Single beadlocks are great at this. IALs are not very good at this. Another reason is to help resist bending rims. Rock rings do this well, but require welding to an existing rim. For about the same price as a new rim plus a ring and welding, you can get a single beadlock rim that does all you need and then some. Add a ring to the back, and you'll have pretty bend resistant rims. Single beadlocks are decent for this application. IALs also help reduce rim bending, as they act as a cushion or tire bump that helps keep the rim from actually contacting an obstacle. IALs are decent for this application, but both the single beadlock and IAL's benefit from adding rings. Another reason people buy beadlocks is to keep their 16.5" tires on the rims. Single beadlocks are not very good at this, as the inner bead will still fall off rather easily, although the outer lock will keep the rim from spinning inside the tire which reduces the chances of it falling off. IALs are excellent at this as they keep both beads on equally well.
Single beadlocks certainly have their place, and are an excellent product for certain applications. Going fast, for example, is something that most manufactured singles are great at. They are machined rather true, can be balanced reasonably well, help keep from bending the outside bead, and have a reasonable overall weight. Of course, IALs can also do these things while also giving an internal tire bump, but they certainly don't look cool, and go fast rigs are suppose to look cool.
IALs are also great, in their best applications, such as keeping both beads on with low tire pressure, fitting 16.5" wheels, rigs on a budget, rigs with preexisting wheels, making single beadlocks work even better, or keeping your tires from slicing when they pinch on impact.
If you're buying new rims for your rig and want to run BFG Reds, or some sort of tow rig tire, like a Nitto, Pro-Comp, Falken, Goodyear, or whatever, and run them at 7+ pounds of air pressure, and keep some sort of OBA, then the TR's or other single beadlock will work great for you.
If you need a product that keeps your beads on at low pressure (0-5 psi) even with 16.5" rims, and tough sidewall tires, give Dookey a call, he has a great product at a fair price.
If you also want it to help keep your tires from pinching and slicing on impact, want an internal tire bump to help resist bending your rims, want to have extra stability at low psi, want to be able to use with your existing rims, or swap to different rims later, and want it to be pretty affordable, then you're going to want to try a set of Inner Air Locks.
For 5 psi and less, a single lock just doesn't cut it, no matter how pretty they are. In snow, they do so-so.
If you want it all, put a set of IALs inside a set of single beadlocks.
For me, and my application, TR's were a joke. A product that really took the fun out of wheeling. I just got to tired of putting beads back on and filling flat tires. With low pressure, it only takes one or two burps to have a flat tire just about to fall off. If I got off an obstacle, that usually meant a tire off the bead. TRs made me a trail plug.
IALs fixed those problems and others I didn't even know I had. Now I can wheel all day and not worry about tires.
FWIW, I can install a set of IALs faster than I can install all the bolts in a set of single beadlocks.
Also, I never said that IALs were for everyone, but you nutswingers sure implied that TRs are, and blamed all the problems on the tires. Typical of Californians, you seem to believe the world revolves around you. We don't all wheel on sandpaper with one ply sidewalls.
Serious question, why would it be so bad if TR made the inner safety bead further in on the bell, you guys with reds could just let the bead slip back a little bit, which probably wouldn't hurt anything, it's not like you guys can handle a little bit of mud, so you wouldn't get anything stuck in there, and if it really bothered you, you could just wrap the rim with duct tape. That's how they told me to fix my $2000 rims.