NEw Tires from Michelin.

That **** is CRAZY!!!

I tried to attach but files are too large.

Go to my Gallery, I will put them up.

If anyone can reduce the size and put the pics here later that woudl be great.

Ted

 

I was unable to upload the photos to my gallery as it says they ar ein an unacceptable format.


They are .bmp files.

what gives?

Can anyone assist?

These tires are CRAZY.

Ted

 

I don't see any in the Gallery Ted.

In any case, when you upload to the Gallery, if the image is that big, the software should create a smaller version that you can link here.

EDIT: Caught me in between posting. Send them to me and I'll put them up for you:

neo.one@gmail.com

 

Yea that's pretty crazy the way tires are going in the future. The Audi looks pretty cool sittin on 22's

 

just looked it up on:http://www.michelinman.com/differenc...01102005a.html
its pretty funky,i think you'll need smaller wheels to accommodate the shock absorbers thingies

 

Here are the pics:

 

thats old technology, My old mountain bike had tires that did not require air.

 

those are ugly tires. i hope they have side walls molded on for their final design.

 

I am sure Michelin has thought of this, but there are a few issues with these tires:

1) Aesthetics. Who wants a tire that looks like that?
Designing a sidewall that works with this tire design should prove to ba a major challenge.
I would think you'd want to enclose the tire structure to keep out water, stones, road debris,
etc., otherwise you could encounter a wheel imbalance if stuff got in there..

2) Sidewall height. It seems that in order to make this design have reasonable ride quality,
the sidewall height needs to be fairly tall.
The current trend on cars is towards lower profile tires.
Are automotive stylists or consumers asking for a tire that looks like a 215/65-16?

Which leads us to:
3) brake caliper clearance. With car manufactureres putting larger brake packages on vehicles
that only seem to get heavier every year, can you put a decent size brake under those small-
diameter wheels? As you can see, even the smallish Audi brakes barely fit in that wheel...

I guess you don't have to worry about using Armor-All on the sidewalls...

Did I mention they are ugly?

 

One of the local news stations ran a report on this a few months ago. I remember one of the issues with these tires is road noise.

 

Yeah they called it the "Tweel". The name is almost as ****ty as the tires them sleves

 

That's it! What a dumb name. Didn't they say something about cornering performance not being as good as traditional tires too?

 

Cool...its nice to see companies like Michelin push the limit on new engineering design and technology.

Pete

 

hahaha, nice r&d i say

 

REPOST sorry Ted
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...ighlight=tires