A person emailed me some old pictures and I seen this picture so I googled it.
Pretty cool tires!


http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2009...minated-tires/

 

Haven't seen them before, but I did see a guy driving a POS with 24s and the tires that don't inflate...they are like honey comb sidewalls. Very strasnge looking!


Similar to this. http://www.worldcarfans.com/11112083...cept-announced

 

Those tires put out more light than my old T3's

 

Yeah, this is the future of tires. The tire/wheel hub are vehicle specific so it appears that changing wheel/tire sizes in the future will be harder than it is today.

 

Where there is a will there will be a way.

 

Good part is it won't be while I'm alive. That technology has been around for quite some time. Personally I don't see folks willing to buy in on that unless the style also improves. Who wants to roll around on fancy cheese graters?

 

You've got to be kidding! People are doing this all the time now!

"Fancy cheese grater" is about as apt a description of this sort of thing




as I've ever heard.

 

But there's a distinct advantage to tires that don't inflate. They also don't DEflate. That's a nice thing not to have to worry about, and it would put out of business all those nasty, dollar-gouging air pumps you see at gas stations now.

This type of tire would also likely obviate the need to carry a spare tire. That would reduce the car's weight, lower its cost, and increase the amount of cargo area, however slight in each case.

 

Maybe. BUT, how would they stand up in snowy conditions? I'd bet they'll go out of balance in a hurry with all the areas that would accumulate slush/ice/snow. Do they make a special all purpose compound rubber or would it still be necessary to swap out winter/summer tires in affected climatic regions?

 

Lazy people get what they deserve. I use my bicycle pump to top off my tires. For normal size tires, it takes about 10 strokes to add 1 psi. It takes a pretty bad leak to require more than 100 strokes. And it's good exercise.

 

Baloney. Anyone who uses a bicycle tire pump to pump up a car tire has a screw loose.

If it's exercise you want, there about 100 better ways of getting it than this way.


Besides, I have this kind of bicycle pump at home




and it would take about 50 strokes with this thing to add 1 psi of pressure to a car tire.

Plus, half the time I want to add pressure to a tire, it's when I'm on the road, and I don't make it a habit of keeping a bicycle pump in the trunk. I just make sure the spare is topped off and my AAA membership card is in my pocket before leaving on a trip.

 

This is what I carry. It will fill up the 11.50 x 32 tires on my Jeep from 5 PSI to 30 PSI in under 3 minutes.



And for those times when there's a nail or whatnot trying to let the air out:



AAA won't go out into the wilderness to get me and my Jeep so I have to be self sufficient.