Fun video time! How many PSI to explode a 20 year-old, dry-rotted tire?

[freebeard]

As RedDevil says, if they get under inflated, that's when they start shedding the big chunks of tread that litter the highway shoulders.

[CapriRacer]

Originally Posted by jamesqf

Yet on the other end, semi truck tires get inflated to around 100 PSI.

And don't forget the reinforcing plies. They are there for a reason.

[freebeard]

The pneumatic tire is what made the modern road vehicle possible. We think of balloons going pop, but nothing else but pneumatics will take a hit from a pothole at freeway speeds.

The Tweel is getting close to a replacement. But they need 3D printed fractal spokes


http://road.cc/content/tech-news/221397-bridgestone-latest-develop-puncture-proof-bicycle-tyre

[freebeard]

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