RE: Michelin rolls out airless tyre

[andy.shent]

regarding the use of stingers to stop the baddy by deflating his tyres no longer being any use, The police have already come up with a new tool to stop the vehicle fitted with these new "Tweel,s" It comprises of a long stick held by the officer as the vehicle goes by he pushes the stick in to the gap between the spokes! If I remember rightly it used to work with push bikes when I was a kid!

[Balmoral Green]

How many more times are they 'launching' this? It's like a re-post of a re-post of a re-post.

[Dodgey_Rog]

sprinter885 said:

I can see the bad guys laughing all the way FROM the bank. Picture the scene of crooks chasing off in your PAJ with loot in boot & a STINGER thrown out in front. Hmmmmm !!!

They have that blanket thats when the car goes over it, it somehow clogs the wheels up and brings it to a nice stop. Think i saw it on Police Stop or some other turd cop show......

So its not impossible to stop the Tweel!!!!

[cdp]

andy.shent said:

regarding the use of stingers to stop the baddy by deflating his tyres no longer being any use, The police have already come up with a new tool to stop the vehicle fitted with these new "Tweel,s" It comprises of a long stick held by the officer as the vehicle goes by he pushes the stick in to the gap between the spokes! If I remember rightly it used to work with push bikes when I was a kid!

Why not use landmines?

[FestivAli]

I saw the demonstration video a couple of weeks ago on 'Beyond Tomorrow' or one of those science programs and it looked pretty impressive; it's a fantastic idea in my opinion and is production feasible. My only issue is with potential tread patterns; look at how thin the contact rubber is on it. Granted, I don't know much about tyres, but how deep do treads need to be to be effective? For instance, how does this compare with a conventional tyre at things like directing water out of the tread to prevent aquaplaning etc? Otherwise, I'm definately a fan.

Ali.

[YarisSi]

The quad is made by the guys that make the two wheel balancing thing (soory I have completely fogotten the name of it) but they have lots of videos of it on the website and its very cool.

Another new toy the police have is a hand held or grill mounted gun that shoots a gps tracer onto car and then they just work out where its going. The stories in one of the papers.

[sprinter885]

Dodgey_Rog said:

sprinter885 said: I can see the bad guys laughing all the way FROM the bank. Picture the scene of crooks chasing off in your PAJ with loot in boot & a STINGER thrown out in front. Hmmmmm !!! They have that blanket thats when the car goes over it, it somehow clogs the wheels up and brings it to a nice stop. Think i saw it on Police Stop or some other turd cop show...... So its not impossible to stop the Tweel!!!!

Doesn't that depend on the cops having a picnic blanket in the boot at the time?? Seriously thou' I think I've seen it too.

andy.shent said:

regarding the use of stingers to stop the baddy by deflating his tyres no longer being any use, The police have already come up with a new tool to stop the vehicle fitted with these new "Tweel,s" It comprises of a long stick held by the officer as the vehicle goes by he pushes the stick in to the gap between the spokes! If I remember rightly it used to work with push bikes when I was a kid!

So it was YOU!!-Nasty but effective!!-- does that also mean you can attach fag cards etc to rattle on the spokes as they rotate & give you that cheap motor bike noise?? Cool- ahh back to my youth.

[nerfherder]

So, did anything come of this?

[Codswallop]

nerfherder said:

So, did anything come of this?

Presumably, the realisation that there's a lot more money to be made in selling puncturable tyres.

[nerfherder]

Codswallop said:

Presumably, the realisation that there's a lot more money to be made in selling puncturable tyres.

lol!