No Flat tire

[TLRam1]

Watch this video as a motorcycle rides over nails several times w/o a flat.

http://www.rhinotire.com/

[magnagregcan]

It looks like the bike is tipping over when the video ends.

[Jamtndll]

Need to do some more research but very interesting


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[roboto65]

Yeah interesting did not see anything in there warranty about balance issues and nothing was mentioned from what I saw might have missed it but it was never brought up.... Would hate to get one and have to put 5 oz of lead on it to balance it LOL

[lragan]

I, too wonder about balance issues.

Reminds me of the "Neverleak" product that I used in bicycle tires as a kid.  The inner tubes you could buy during and right after WWII were of "synthetic rubber" -- red colored, no stretch, worthless as teats on a boar!  Worse yet, I lived in "goathead" country.  This ground hugging vine-weed produced a tetrahedral four pointed thorn that was structured so that no matter how it fell on the ground, one thorn was always pointed up!!

Since it was impossible to patch the synthetic rubber tubes, we would buy a tube of "Neverleak" and inject it in the tube.  It was supposed to plug the leak as it was exposed to air and hardened.  It worked about as well as the synthetic rubber inner tubes.  As a result, my bike seemed to always have at least one flat tire.  My uncle rigged some clamps so I could carry a tire pump on the top bar, and I would pump up the tire(s!), and ride like crazy to get to school, town, wherever I was headed, before they went flat.  Return trip required another pump-up.

When real rubber inner tubes returned to the hardware store, I saved for two months to buy a set.  They were a Godsend.  All the adults in my life warned me not to use Neverleak in the rubber tubes, as it would rot them.  Don't know if that was true or not, but I never used the goop again.

I couldn't get the bike to speeds where balance was an issue, as the ground was flatter than a gander's arch for thirty miles in all directions!

In any case, I am highly suspicious of this product.  With my luck, the stuff would seal right at the tread, like a "cord patch" improperly done from the outside of the tire, and air would get between the tread and body of the tire, causing a knot -- or worse.

Think I will wait for someone else to evaluate this one.  Lotsa luck!!