While the everyday driver relies on a set of pneumatic tires to get from A to B, tire companies like Michelin are doing valuable research and development into airless tires because they don’t go flat.
Polaris’ TerrainArmor Non-Pneumatic Tire (NPT), on which the new Sportsman WV850 H.O. ATV rides, has been nominated for Tire Technology of the Year by Tire Technology International. The NPT ATV tires ...
According to Polaris, the TerrainArmor tires, can take a direct hit from a .50-caliber round and still drive 350 miles; they can also last 1,000 miles after running over a railroad spike. How do they ...
There’s nothing that ruins going to work like having your tires shot out with a .50 caliber machine gun round. If that happens to you a lot, and your commute is across open fields and through the ...
All-terrain vehicle riders, the pain will soon be over. For years, pneumatic tires -- the kind you fill with air -- have been a burr in the side of the ATV industry. Even on short excursions over ...
Punctures might be a thing of the past if this new style of tyre catches on, as its the very first to be non-pneumatic or airless which is now commercially available to consumers as Non-Pneumatic ...
Polaris, maker of powersports vehicles such as snowmobiles and ATVs, will put an airless tire onto a production vehicle by 2014. To recap, an “airless tire” is what’s known as a non-pneumatic tire ...