It's not the clip...
(pssst) I have a Strider SnG (don't tell anyone). It's a fine knife and I really like it, a lot! Believe me when I tell you... it NEEDS the Hinderer lockbar stabilizer. The clip on the CRK might look like it serves a similar purpose, and I'm sure it does help, but I'm absolutely positively certain that the clip's effect as a stabilizer to the lockbar is minimal at best... and that's a fact. And another fact... the strength of the lockbar on the CRK knives has everything to do with the shape and position of the cutout. That's it in a nutshell.
Take apart a Sebenza and try with your bare hands to bend back the lockbar. You'd have to be ridiculously strong to bend it out of shape so it won't spring back. Do the same to a Strider and you'll bend back the lockbar pretty easily, and it won't spring back to it's original position.
This isn't posted to take anything away from the Strider. I may prefer them for myself over the CRK, but it's all in the design and execution. CRK have excellent, minimalist (almost flawless), designs which have no need of the well-engineered but done after-the-fact (because the weakness was discovered later), lockbar stabilizers of the other brands. CRK simply doesn't need it.
