Hey guys I do not know if this has been seen before or not but I got this in an email from my uncle.

I guess it is about airless see through tires made by Michelin here is the Email I got with pictures.

NEW "SEE THRU" TIRES

Radical new tire design by Michelin. The next generation of tires.
They had a pair at the Philadelphia car show.


These tires are airless and are scheduled to be out on the market very soon.

The bad news for law enforcement is that spike strips will not work on these tires.

This is what great R&D will do, and just think of the impact on existing technology:

a. no more air valves
b. no more air compressors at gas stations
c. no more repair kits

SCAN DOWN & SEE.

These are actual pictures taken in the South Carolina plant of Michelin. It will be awhile before they are available to the automotive industry.


Honestly it is a really neat design about how it works, but I do not like the look of it.

Still pretty cool.

 

Im pretty sure they called it the tweel. Big thing in R&T about it a while ago. Its pretty cool though.

 

yep, tweel, sorta old news, but still cool none the less, will be great for average run of the mill commuter cars and race applications

 

THey need to have sidewalls, stuff will get stuck in there and thrown every which way.

 

obviously the prodcuction unit would have sidewalls. but how would they show off the concept if there were sidewalls now.

 

Taken right from the original post:

Which one is it??? Soon or awhile?

Either way, I think they're pretty fugly

 

 

No one listens to Chris

 

those are nasty looking, but a good idea....

what about when they get packed with snow, ide or mud? how would that affect the ride quality?

it looks like they would be easy to re-tread, good for the economy?

no more flats cause of nails or screws!

 

they would look like normal tires and have sidewalls.
they are only open to show us what it looks like and how it works.

jeez.

 

those tires do have air in them!

 

good call.

 

lmao at Chris's plight

Good stuff. I wonder if they'd be cheaper than conventional tires

 

Anything new is not going to be cheap... I'd really hope they look like conventional tires in normal production.

 

what if it flexes so much the sidewall pops off?...then it looks like you have the spare on lol

 

I don't think the sidewallys are going to be a pop-on pop-off sort of deal. They will probably be molded in such a way that something like that wouldnt happen. 'sides, that would take alot of flexing, and i would hope that the tire ont be flexing that much anyway lol

 

oh yea lol oppss

 

I wonder how I could fasten a baseball card to them?

 

Good idea, but they look like crap.

I prefer tires with sidewalls.

 

You're quite the troublemaker North