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  1. 08-14-2005, 12:43 AM #1
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    Whoa! What are they thinking?!

    I was just stumbling the net and found this pic of some new car tires michelin is trying:
    http://www.michelinman.com/promo/200...ery.html?pic=6

    Do you think they'll be accepted?
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  2. 08-14-2005, 06:31 AM #2
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    ummm probably not. by the way check the arena.
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    hell yeah! the tweel... read about that a while back. cool technology indeed.

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  4. 08-14-2005, 04:36 PM #4
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    crazy. seems like the give in the tire would decrease a cars ability to transfer power into acceleration. anyone have any links to details about them?
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  5. 08-14-2005, 10:39 PM #5
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    really do we need the space to lower our suspensions even more? it's getting a bit like the game how low will you go.

    (i'm talking about the tires getting smaller and smaller, and the suspensions lower and lower)
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  6. 08-14-2005, 11:49 PM #6
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    well I think that has already hit bottom. I have seen trucks lowered so low that if they actually DROVE it, it would bottom out.
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  7. 08-14-2005, 11:58 PM #7
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    bah. the samples now are small. they'll be some 24's out soon enough.

    :bling:

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  8. 08-15-2005, 01:48 AM #8
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    Lets just hope they don't trial them on Formula 1 cars :-)
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  9. 08-15-2005, 12:09 PM #9
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    Useless anywhere cold, Park in a puddle in the day, morning after your tires submerged in a block of ice. haha.

    Very interesting though for sure.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dabrewski
    Useless anywhere cold, Park in a puddle in the day, morning after your tires submerged in a block of ice. haha.

    Very interesting though for sure.
    you could probably wrap it, i'm sure they are leaving the sides exposed for experimental publicity reasons. If they did go to market the would need to find a spot to put their name on the tire.
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  12. 08-15-2005, 01:08 PM #12
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    you cant go fast or on snow
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  13. 08-15-2005, 03:10 PM #13
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    Quote Originally Posted by atRax
    you cant go fast or on snow
    And why not?
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  14. 08-15-2005, 03:30 PM #14
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    the stability of the tire at higher speeds as it stands isn't exactly there. But that's just another engineer or two away most likely.

    but you can't go fast on snow regardless. that's an idiot's endeavor.

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    That's what you say, but have you ever driven on a spiked snow bike through the Austrian Alps? I got to about 70 km/h.
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    spiked tires... keywords.

    in the US... these dummies drive on bald ass tires with no thread doing half of that and they perish.

    makes for good sessions of sitting on the porch and watching traffic though while drinking coffee with Tia Marie liquer to help with the chill though.

    dude. people in the US can not friggin' drive. that's almost the rule.

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  17. 08-15-2005, 04:05 PM #17
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    Gerbs, i do the same thing...at least i did in college, we had a 2nd floor apartment where we could see 2 intersections with just stop signs...man it was fun watching retarded college kids sliding through and coming close to hitting some trees and telephone poles. It got real fun after 2am.
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    you obviously have not been to massachusetts. the only people who cant drive here are the people who are old, from new york, from floridia, or are soonto be dead due to road rage.
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    Quote Originally Posted by silverx2
    you obviously have not been to massachusetts. the only people who cant drive here are the people who are old, from new york, from floridia, or are soonto be dead due to road rage.
    You've got it all wrong. M*******s have no idea how to drive. Down here, they do 40 in the left hand lane. Heck, I drove in Caimbridge ONCE, and no one there knew the rules of the road, especially at a 4-way stop.

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