Honestly this is why I’m so into the idea of airless tires. Everyone just happily ignores this waste and I don’t get it

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    1 month ago

    Ah, OK. I was more thinking of mountain biking and related stuff. I didn’t know that punctuation of tires still is a thing in (street) cycling.

    However, I assume an airless tire for biking should have the same round cross section like an air filled bike tire, while the car tires both have a rectangular cross section. Thus the tires for biking need to be constructed differently. The one I’ve found is from Schwalbe and is basically a usual tire filled with a PU having a similar stiffness than a common tire with an air pressure of 3.5 bar. Currently, they don’t have a system for racing yet.