An Interesting Tire

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Post by coaledsweat » Sun. Feb. 24, 2019 7:31 am

Saw a GIF on another site. Pretty interesting inovation for the rain.

https://hiconsumption.com/2018/12/hankook-hexonic ... ept-tires/


 
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Post by BigBarney » Mon. Feb. 25, 2019 2:26 pm

There was a similar design about 50 years ago that had the

sipes of the tire open up a bit when rain was forced into the

tread of the tire, but was never able to make the tire last very

long on dry pavement because of heat build up , so it was

abandoned .

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