While bicycling doesn’t produce any pollution, every time you get a flat tire while out on a ride, that rubber tube ends up in a landfill. By one estimate, riders in San Francisco alone throw out more ...
Brian Cooley is CNET's Editor at large and has been with the brand since 1995. He currently focuses on electrification of vehicles but also follows the big trends in smart home, digital healthcare, 5G ...
Airless tires have been coming "soon" for my entire adult life. It's been sixteen years (and one day) since Popular Science first introduced nine-year-old Steve to the concept: Magic tires, always at ...
Not much is known about these Aipex Airless Tires yet, except the tread is replaceable, they'll last 6000 miles, and will launch in 26x2.1 ...
GM patents a detailed design for a non-pneumatic, airless wheel that could end flat tires. We break down how its structural beads and supports work and what it means for drivers.
An advanced tire technology developed by NASA for use on planetary rovers could be coming to a bike lane near you, with startup the Smart Tire Company leveraging the technology to introduce an airless ...
A tire made completely of sustainably sourced, bio-based, renewable and recycled materials. and Michelin have journeyed to develop and implement airless tire solutions. This story is part of a larger ...
What is the best use of a used tire? Make tires out of it, of course. Remember the crumb rubber PPC experiment by the Garage 54 team from Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia, a few weeks ago? They took the ...
The Ohio-based Smart Tire Company has unveiled its shape memory airless bicycle tires called METL, utilizing cutting-edge technology originally developed by NASA. These never-go-flat airless tires are ...
The SMART Tire Company, in a partnership with NASA, is aiming to let the air out of your tires. In a good way, however, as the company wants to use the same kind of state-of-the-art airless tires that ...
We’ve been promised airless, puncture-proof tires for–bloody-ever by this point. But pump-haters, your time is arriving: starting next week, a factory in Piedmont, SC is going to start pumping them ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — While most of the various tire makers' work on developing a viable non-pneumatic tire/wheel unit is focused on industrial or passenger-car applications, Bridgestone Americas Inc. is ...