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Comments on Tweel - (Almost) A Smart Wheel
Michelin is introducing the Tweel - a combination of wheel and tire that could offer a number of benefits to owners of wheeled vehicles. Unlike most Michelin tires sold in the past century, the Tweel is unique - it does not use air to cushion the rid (Read
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| "Interesting idea.... Mabe it can prevent many car accsidents whitch were carred due to the flat tires." (Rrrrrrr 1/15/2005 5:05:49 AM) |
| "Man! This is awesome! It's about time they did something about the wheel, you know... I always thought that it was primitive to put air in a wheel in the first place! This is going to save lots of time and money!" (Jose 1/20/2005 5:42:05 AM) |
| "Wasn't "Tweel" the name of the alien in Stanley G. Weinbaum's "A Martian Odessey"? Not at all wheel-like, though.
It would be far too cool if he were, wouldn't it?" (Eric S. Harris 2/20/2005 8:41:34 PM) |
| "TWEEL-IT IS VERY GOOD INVENTION.IT IS REVOTINARY SEARCH. " (GAURAV KADAM-INDIA 3/7/2005 12:27:06 AM) |
| "I can remember a similar airless wheel built years ago in Sweden (Volvo? Saab?).
The spring medium was transverse U shaped fiberglass beams (imagine a U on it's side, bottom on the road, top on the wheel hub) designed to deflect evenly across the tread. Their appearance was similar to a multi spoked (say 20) wheel with a 0 aspect tire (Just a shear band with a tread).
It may have been on a show car but it was tested.
I think that I saw a report on it in a magazine about Materials Development or similar." (Rafe03 11/4/2005 9:27:18 AM) |
| "Hi. I live in northern Canada and I am afraid that at minus 15 F if you drove over a bump those spokes would shatter." (John B 2/26/2006 9:10:03 AM) |
| "this is the most useful tire for the road like in india" (dhananjay 3/7/2006 9:36:40 AM) |
| "Hi there, I invented the tweel about 30 years ago, except I called it "the jefferson noair wheel". after my favorite band." (tham 4/21/2006 8:18:48 PM) |
| "What do you replace when the tread is gone? The whole wheel?
What is the projected cot?" ( 5/27/2006 7:40:01 PM) |
| "Where can I find a video demo of the Audi A4 with tweel.
carnold@norcomazda.com" (Charlie 7/27/2006 1:51:34 PM) |
| "Being from up north eh, snow and slut in the spokes would cause quite the havoc:/" (Matty P 8/20/2006 7:15:13 PM) |
| "when & where he invented the tweel????" (anonymous 9/3/2006 2:40:50 AM) |
| "it is a cool tyre" (bob 10/16/2006 9:10:48 PM) |
| "This would be neat for a mountain bike." (Ethan Horisk 10/24/2006 2:56:22 PM) |
| "i want to know the complete tire and wheel history upto the invention of tweel" ( 12/2/2006 10:28:38 PM) |
| "Hey were doing a project on your tire and we want to know if you have any extra info for us ! ?
" (Korrina Reid, Teshia Henry, Kalya Gitty 9/24/2007 9:37:44 AM) |
| "thats a pretty kool bullet" ( 1/12/2010 8:41:21 AM) |
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