Check this out.  Michelin released it's new prototype airless tire called Tweel.  Eliminating flats, inflation, and replacement.  The new tires will never go flat and will only need to be retreaded instead of replaced.  I'm already saving up.

http://www.michelinman.com/difference/releases/pressrelease01102005a.html

http://www.fastcoolcars.com/airless-tires.htm

Does this look cool but at the same time weird to anyone else?

Uh, dude, that press release is over 2 years old.

haha ya it is but i just saw it so its new to me.

Actually they also just released a motorcycle version of that tire(by released I mean public showing), looks just like a regular MC tire

still looks stupid, it looks like a k'nex toy or something  i'd  the guy who invented these cause he got to it before i did you know everyone is going to use this crap easy buck.

yeah they covered th moto version of that tire in Cycle World this month.  it looked interesting and not as fugly as the car version.

I can't imagine that the cops are excited about them...

Ya.. no stop sticks for those.

Quote from: ixolas on February 09, 2007, 10:50:08 AM
Ya.. no stop sticks for those.

Probably cuts down on burnouts, though.

wonder how much power you would have to push before you broke the spokes

Ill bet you lose MPG running those.

Does anyone else think "tweel" is a stupid name?  It immediately associates this product with "sporks" in my mind.

And whe all know what a cutlery revolution hat was.

Quote from: AWRobinson on February 10, 2007, 07:18:05 PM
Does anyone else think "tweel" is a stupid name?  It immediately associates this product with "sporks" in my mind.

And whe all know what a cutlery revolution hat was.

i hate sporks and I hate the tweel. I refuse to use either lol

I like my tweels like I like my women...black, round, and dragged around the block a few times.

They could angle the spokes a little and make noises with them.. now that would be lame.. but it would fit with its name.   Should have named them like ALW's for AirLess Wheel, or something like that, but tweel?  cmon I'd sport them if they would close the sides up so they looked like normal wheels.