New tier, any seen it before?

[oddnor]

Hi All.


Here is a pics of a new " in the test" tire fore use on military truck.

It's the university in Wisconsin-Madison and Resilient Technologies so have come to this tire.

It's mine, bullet and bomb prof .

Odd

 

[mbwarner]

An auto tire, Michelin, I think, is working on car tires made that way.

 

[IRWFO]

I think I read about it being an airless design in military testing.

 

[scooter01922]

Cool design but i can't shake the feeling that it wouldn't do too well offroad. Just imagine how much it would weigh if you went thru a bunch of thick sticky mud and it filled in all the air spaces. With the 4 of em mud filled i think you would be hard pressed to go faster than 10 miles an hour when you got back on road and stopping wouldn't be much fun either with that much rotating mass.

 

[K45]

I think these wheel/tire set up would be valuable in the middle east with most of their travels on dessert dirt roads with mines. But yes it would be rough offroad going through mud clogging the holes and would cause the vehicle to ride out of alignment. Also highway ride would be ruff also. Still cool looking set up and practical.

 

[dependable]

There have been tires like that available for skid steer loaders for several years, marketed to landfill operators and the like. Never tried them myself.

 

[doghead]

I wonder how long until those tires hit the "urban street scene"?

Can you say, "rollin' on 35's"!

 

[oddnor]

Tire

Hi

Belive it ore not, , you can drive in up to 50 , safe, and not lose your teeth.

It's not similar to truck loader tires.

It's the design so do it good to i use, bi cube design, with the rubber, in a war scenario.


Odd

 

[randyscycle]

I could see that sort of "skeleton" inside of an outer casing much like the runflats. That would prevent the loading of the internals with mud or debris.

 

[DavidWymore]

Michelin's are called tweels. They work good except for building too much heat.

(EDIT) They only get hot at hiway speeds...

 

[dilvoy]

That's the furst one of those things that I have seen attached to a Normal Wheel,

 

[atankersdad]

I can only imagine what this would look like on a chrome 20" wheel bolted to a caddy escalade. YUK!!! It may wind up on the past thread of ugly vehicles. Now I would like to have a set of those on my bob-cat! That makes it functional.

 

[Tanner]

Michelin's are called tweels. They work good except for building too much heat.

(EDIT) They only get hot at hiway speeds...

Wow, they only get hot at highway speeds? Sounds PERFECT for use on CUCV's that likewise get too hot at highway speeds...

But I'm not too sure about it being 'airless'; non-pneumatic, I'd say, but then I'd just be accused of being correct... couldn't let that happen, could we? -
Actually, isn't air flowing all around & through the 'tire'?

'Tanner'