solid/non puncture tyres

[vx220]

Hi,
Years ago, my old mum had solid (but spongey) tyres for her £100 mountain bike, so save hassle.

She said they were "comfortable, but hard work"

Any modern equivalent?

Not worried about the hard work, as it's for exercise not transport purposes

[gazza285]

You will be, bloody horrible things. Not sure about modern equivalents but the old ones were rolling turds.

[nike 5]

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/product-news/punctu...

Couple of comments from readers below article.

[anonymous-user]

evil things, dont fool yourself into thinking that its like a ballast to improve fitness, if you want to improve fitness, do it properly and use HR zones etc. Solid tyres will massively compromise handling and I'd be very wary on fast descents.

[Watchman]

From talking about this with some cyclist friends, it seems there's some misunderstanding about how a pneumatic tyre works. The *whole* volume of the tyre provides the spring for the bit that's touching the road, whereas a solid tyre utilises only the bit immediately between the road and the wheel for the spring. This means you're carrying a whole lot of unsprung weight around with you that it only doing something for a fraction of a revolution. And rarely (ever?) does it as consistently or even as good as a pneumatic tyre.

[anonymous-user]

The first Google result for 'solid bicycle tyre' has some info :-
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/re...

[TheLemming]

Even if they work perfectly and you never get a puncture again, the price paid in terms of weight and rolling resistance isn't worth it.

Riding those would be hellish....

[TwistingMyMelon]

reinventing the wheel literally

I've done 3000 commuting miles and never got a puncture on tyres that were £10 each


I even pulled a nail out the sidewall and it hadn't gone through


Job Jobbed, current tyres are fine as long as you follow basic rules:
Keep properly inflated
Don't ride in the gutter
Check psi every ride/couple of days
replace early
choose a suitable tyre in first place

[Rotaree]

TheLemming said:

Even if they work perfectly and you never get a puncture again, the price paid in terms of weight and rolling resistance isn't worth it.

Riding those would be hellish....

Perhaps not... There's a more comprehensive review from the Telegraph Here

[TwistingMyMelon]

Rotaree said:

TheLemming said:

Even if they work perfectly and you never get a puncture again, the price paid in terms of weight and rolling resistance isn't worth it.

Riding those would be hellish....

Perhaps not... There's a more comprehensive review from the Telegraph Here

Blimey you know that they are bad when he says the ride is worse than his normal gatorskins!

[uncinquesei]

TwistingMyMelon said:

Blimey you know that they are bad when he says the ride is worse than his normal gatorskins!