Re:Michelin Airless
by rolleiflex on Thursday October 14, 2021 @04:53PM
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Do you think something like this would be made available for motorcycle tires? Motorcycles are significantly more vulnerable to tire-caused crashes because a motorcycle whose one tire violently decompresses on a highway or autobahn is very likely to have a crash since it can no longer balance, while a car that loses a tire still has 3 other tires and will still have plenty of traction and balance left to pull over. Something like this that makes violent decompression impossible would be a fairly big improvement to motorcycle safety.
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I wonder this myself. I'm not sure the technology is ready for street bike speeds, but some of the speeds you do on a dirtbike with tight turns and technical terrains.. maybe.
https://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/tires-and-wheels/michelin...
An "equivalent psi" of 13, which is basically what I run my dirtbike at anyway in the New Hampshire forest trails. Although this is slightly different since it replaces the tube not the whole tire.