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New Michelin Airless Tires 
http://www.technoride.com...044_1.aspx Just as we're getting used to run-flat tires, which means you run them flat for 50 or 100 miles before repairing or replacing them, along comes an airless tire. It's called Tweel, from Michelin, and it's a thick band of rubber (essentially the tire tread) applied to a wheel with deformable spokes. With a normal tire, when you hit a bump, the tire flexes (as does the suspension), but not the wheel. Hit a bump hard with low-profile tires (tiny sidewalls), and your expensive alloy wheel flexes – actually, it breaks, as may the tire itself.
With Tweel, the polyurethane spokes flex instead of the tire sidewalls. Because the tires are air-free, Michelin says lateral stiffness can be increased by a factor of five. Translation: When you corner hard (or accelerate, or brake), a traditional tire deforms and the tread loses some of its grip. Increase air pressure from 32 psi to 45 psi, and the tire deforms less, but ride quality goes down the drain. With Tweel, that's a non-issue. Prototype vehicles are noisy, so there are no immediate passenger-car plans. Tweel might come sooner to commercial vehicles or the military: Imagine a Hummer that wouldn't be stopped by spikes in the road. For Michelin, Tweel could be an end-run around the run-flat tire issue and the need for costly tire-pressure monitors. Competitor Bridgestone's run-flats work on any wheel; Michelin run-flats require a separate wheel system called PAX, and tire buyers with long memories recall an ill-fated, proprietary 1980s Michelin wheel specification called TRX that locked buyers in to one brand and a handful of tire choices. On the other hand, Michelin had another radical concept that worked out well, eventually: the radial tire.  They don't look very good though do they? | |
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Oh, up yer bum prince.org. You don't deserve airless tires.  | |
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Fauxie said: Oh, up yer bum prince.org. You don't deserve airless tires.
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CarrieMpls said: Fauxie said: Oh, up yer bum prince.org. You don't deserve airless tires.
 On every thread I start I end up posting something along those lines. | |
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Fauxie said: CarrieMpls said: On every thread I start I end up posting something along those lines.And you complain about my threads. 
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CarrieMpls said: Fauxie said: On every thread I start I end up posting something along those lines.And you complain about my threads.
Just because my threads are bad doesn't mean yours aren't too.  | |
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this is very T2! | |
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Should've gone with assless pants instead.  | |
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Fauxie said: Should've gone with assless pants instead.
i tried to help! lolz | |
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Christopher said: this is very T2!
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What do you think about the MOTHER FUCKING AIRLESS TIRES?????  | |
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they look like bicycle tires. | |
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will i still be able to burn rubber with these? | |
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sinisterpentatonic said: will i still be able to burn rubber with these?
 why you wanna hurt me, sin... | |
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Handclapsfingasnapz said: sinisterpentatonic said: will i still be able to burn rubber with these?
why you wanna hurt me, sin...i have a lead foot. 
so inevitably, that makes me push the pedal to the metal 
and burn rubber on you, dansy.... 
 <-----That's you underneath my tire.
OH NO NO NONO!!!!  | |
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sinisterpentatonic said: Handclapsfingasnapz said:
why you wanna hurt me, sin...i have a lead foot.
so inevitably, that makes me push the pedal to the metal
and burn rubber on you, dansy....
<-----That's you underneath my tire.
OH NO NO NONO!!!!   | |
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Handclapsfingasnapz said: sinisterpentatonic said: i have a lead foot.
so inevitably, that makes me push the pedal to the metal
and burn rubber on you, dansy....
<-----That's you underneath my tire.
OH NO NO NONO!!!!  | |
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Handclapsfingasnapz said: sinisterpentatonic said: will i still be able to burn rubber with these?
why you wanna hurt me, sin...I never ever had a lover put the pedal 2 the metal and burn rubber on me, Charlie... "He's a musician's musician..." | |
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sinisterpentatonic said: Handclapsfingasnapz said: you burnin rubber on my woot? | |
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Please do the right thing  | |
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Fauxie said: What do you think about the MOTHER FUCKING AIRLESS TIRES?????
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