eeeeeeewwwwwwww!!!!!
looks like cycle wheels!!!!
especially in the 2nd pic!!!

I expect the brakes to stay cool and clean.

Quite an old news.. There was a show on BBC which showed these tyres. Also an email was doing rounds on internet through groups which had all the details about these tyres...

Tyre Shoulders are required....

Michelin has made an awsome concept but the finishing is where they flopped....

Imagine the same tyre with aa shoulder added to it on sideways ...
i.e. it would look like a normal tyre to everyone but instead of being tubeless or with tube imagine these rubber spokes inside the tyre shoulder where the shoulder is just a cosmetic jacket to the sides...

The added shoulders can give the desirable cornering what we bikers and car speedsters look for...

I guess sometimes a technology marvel if presented badly in finishing will get screwed in sales and are difficult to market...

If only the scientistc can be blessed with a little creative imagination too....

Well this is almost 15 -20 years old stuff on which michellin and other compaines have been jumping on and leaving off, previously version of same came in 1990's but had issues with those flexible spokes, unlike current version where this are less than 6cms, the previous version had almost same as cycle spokes, i have seen similar ones with springs etc but all of this fails primarily

1. The touch base was not same always and it was hard to configure for variable weight in car to provide proper ground grip, with higher load the grip use to increase.

2. With heavy load the traction use to increase at times and cornering was again issues.

3. If the flexible spokes loses is strenght or flexibility in extreme heat or cold or due to long storage then it will break very easily and there was no method to replace them

They have been reseraching on many such concepts. A google search on types of tubless tyres will give insight to many more worderfull research products.

When can we expect to see these tyres on road?

9th October 2036.

I don't know if these are going to be used on the roads.This is probably a prototype for a forthcoming tyre technology. Anyways this news is very old. If there was something supposed to come out we would have already seen it.

About few months ago i came to know about these, I saw the whole documentary on this that who these are being developed, whats were the criteria for development of these ones, That documentary came on i guess on Nat Geo or on Discovery Channel (dont remember actually).

I posted this thread on xBHP pre server crash