Who wants to be a millionnaire?

[Mick Mudd]

Amazingly, nobody has ever invented a puncture-proof bike tyre, surely it's not rocket science?
I haven't the knowhow to do it myself but surely there must be inventors out there who could do it with some kind of modern rubbery material and take out a patent?
A couple of ideas spring to mind, firstly a "honeycombed" solid rubber tyre like this experimental one on a vehicle -

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and secondly a pneumatic tyre with a very fine metal puncture-proof "chain mail" mesh woven into the wall?-

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Then perhaps one day scenes like these will be things of the past?..-

 

[DCLane]

@Mick Mudd - Have you come across Tannus solid tyres? They're puncture-proof.

 

[steveindenmark]

@Mick Mudd - Have you come across Tannus solid tyres? They're puncture-proof.

And awful in the wet and a pig to get on. 🙂

But the first tyres invented were puncture proof.

 

[biggs682]

@Mick Mudd - Have you come across Tannus solid tyres? They're puncture-proof.

Having tried them and Green Tyres the ride quality was different to say the least

 

[Drago]

What if you're already a millionaire?

 

[Slick]

What if you're already a millionaire?

Obey the rules and set the new target of billionaire as the ride should never get easier.

Also, see rule 5.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

What if you're already a millionaire?

Then you can afford to get the new fangled pneumatic tyres.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Done years ago, didn't catch on

https://collection.sciencemuseumgro...a-hobby-horse-cycle-hobby-horse-cycle-replica

 

[simongt]

Back in the early 70s, Tomorrow's World demonstrated a compound that was put into a standard vehicle tyre in the form of a sausage. the whole tyre was then gently heated allowing said compound to expand into a firm, but not solid, spongelike form filling the airspace of the tyre.
The tyre was then fitted to an army Landrover, drilled through with several large holes and the Landy was then driven over an assault course, with no apparent ill effects to tyre or the Landy.
Wonder what happened to this apparently good idea for puncture proof car tyres - ?

 

[Mick Mudd]

@Mick Mudd - Have you come across Tannus solid tyres? They're puncture-proof.

Fascinating, but that gives rise to the question- Why doesn't everybody use them, (especially pros) to get rid of the nightmare of leading Paris-Roubaix when suddenly 'BANG pssssssst'..

 

[MontyVeda]

it's been a decade since i've had a puncture... so i've already got them

 

[Mick Mudd]

It seems "run flat" car tyres have been around for many years but apparently the driver has to slow down, and as far as i can tell there's still no such thing as a totally puncture-proof car tyre-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-flat_tire

 

[mistyoptic]

Saw these in Shanghai in 2019

 

[rualexander]

Amazingly, nobody has ever invented a puncture-proof bike tyre, surely it's not rocket science?

People have been inventing 'puncture proof' bike tyres every few years for decades.

 

[mistyoptic]

It seems "run flat" car tyres have been around for many years but apparently the driver has to slow down, and as far as i can tell there's still no such thing as a totally puncture-proof car tyre-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-flat_tire

They do at least allow you to drive (slowly)

as far as the next motorway exit even when the sidewall is like this…
DAMHIKT!