The Most Unusual Bicycle Tyres I've Ever Seen
The Most Unusual Bicycle Tyres I've Ever Seen
airless honeycomb bicycle tyre, my goodness
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I’m still hoping to use something like this someday. We’re in the 21st century after all. It should be possible.
Should be better if you use soapy water.
Id imagine as they wear, they will become more pliable
Who’s Big Daddy…. kids today, eh..
Why not just use the old school blue foam inners?
tried using tie wraps on every hole to hold the tire in? that’s a bit more work 🙂
perhaps try using a hairdryer on them to make them go on easier ?
Am I right that that’s a none sprung saddle? If it is no wonder it feels crap.
That moment when you need solid tires for London because the city is more dangerous than Somalia.
The real life use case of solid rubber tires is factory bikes made for a bike used in a large warehouse or factory keeping maintenance low and there is no need for terrain or cornering etc. Every other example I’ve seen is a gimmick made by someone naive or trying to pull a scam. Not sure which these are, but not a good concept.
Ancient boneshaker per-pneumatic tires are a fun insight into history and progress tho.
Phobia alert
I’ve being using 23mm tannus tyres on my road bike for a year. I’m. Not going back to air ever again, solid tyres for life!
Heat the tires up. Hair drying. high heat, it will help you fix them to the rims, just like a pulley belt ,heating them up makes them easier to stretch and flex. when they cool down, they will shrink again locking them into the rims
Had a tannus tire come of my backwheel on my commuterbike – not using them again. Now using schwalbe marathon plus and extra inlays… Bulletproff…
I’ve seen these or similar on bike share bikes when I went to China. So I assume the main application is the cheapest, minimum bar usability that never punctures, making the bike share service as cheap as possible to run since you’ll never need to service a bike tyre until it literally disintegrates. And then just sell surplus to consumers probably at a massive mark-up.
Getting them in boiling water helps a lot, if you can find a way to!
They are like wheelchair tyres ,,,, good luck mate,,, Been there done that,,,, Ain’t it just ain’t it 😎 lay them in the Sun….. welcome
If you haven’t already checked these out: Stop-A-Flat Puncture Proof, Thorn-resistant, No-flat, Bicycle Tube (at Amazon). The manufacturer says they are approximately 65 PSI. So the ‘tubes’ are solid, not the ‘tires’.
looking at my solid bike tires… im going to pass on trying to put them on
Just make them 2.5" size, that should help!
I tried them on my Wilier Triestina! How come that I colud not get air into them? I,m so F–K-D up! What is WRONG with the World!. This never happened on my 1960 Raleigh Gran-Sport!…LA5 Englandthing.
Who’s big daddy shameful.
hard rubber tire airless is disaster for bump because it never make for comfort at all unless looking for way modifications rim with shock make it more comfortable ride
seen few fat rubber tire airless for mountain bike have little to less comfort but not much (rip rims destory)
if you were looking for comfort then better off with tube tire
In over a hundred years, no one has invented a reasonable alternative to the pneumatic tire. (I’m in NYC, hence my American spelling.) It’s quite arrogant for someone to think they can do it. Punctures are annoying, but the trade off is that if a pneumatic tire were puncture proof, it would be too heavy to ride. And here is what happens when you make a non-pneumatic tire.
I have gator skins on my Specialized carbon bike and they are very nice…
I’ve seen a lot of them on rental bikes and community shared bikes, they are also used by those who ride long distances in extremely remote areas.
This type of tire is probably specifically designed for suspension bikes. When I saw you chose that solid frame bike, I winced.
Now this is entertainment 😂
i put these in boil water and stick screwdrivers through the holes… piece of piss then
Why didn’t you put them on a bike with suspension?
These are only good for daily slow short rides to grocery or transit. Also, they have some potential as theft deterrent.
omg i had those tires. installed them on my ebike as i use it to commute to and from work and can’t afford the time to change a flat en route. they’re terrible!! YES they DO feel like they wanna roll out from under the wheel while cornering. But worse, that sensation happens when you’re just going straight if you’re doing speeds over 18mph. 25+mph causes the entire front of my bike to shimmy. terrifying. switched back to tubed tires, hadn’t had that issue since, no roll, no shimmy at any speed.
hilarious! seems like a few obvious shortcomings should have been ironed out before releasing these on the market. idea is good, tho’…
Smh didnt even try boiling the tire first to get it stretchier
please do a follow up test ride on dirt (these would be good for riding around a junkyard) also please test riding with a regular front tire, it would make sense because the rear tire wears more and also is harder to change, esp if you have internal hub gears or belt drive. thanks!
Any reason why you didnt heat the tyre before fitting?
Mobike bikes had these
Could you test the Schwalbe Airless system?
these tyres are sketchy as hell, the tannus had clips that would lock on the rim and you had to literally rip off the tyre to able to be take them off again
Drill bigger holes
Out of interest, did you test them in the rain / cycling through puddles?
Imagine spending all that money to find out how hard they are to fit, then creasing your rim on the first ride because they don’t have the compliance of pneumatic tyres…
A nice honest review of them though, as well as the red contorted faces.
corner it until it falls off! test the limit!
The comfort circle, they do nothing.
The tipoff that these things would be almost impossible to install was the two; foot and a half pry bars they included.
i have mounted solid ruber foam tubes on 4 bikes by myself, it was a pain but not impossable
Just watching you do this has caused me great emotional pain 😂
You could try making the holes larger with a drill bit, that would make the wheel lighter and more flexible.
But my road bike tires are also rock hard when inflated to the right pressure. How can this be less comfortable?
I would have liked to see you get them back off the rims.