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Despite the words of the great sages of my time<\/a>, history does repeat. Every couple of years someone else drags out the airless bike tyre idea. It seems that every couple years someone gets really excited about the idea of the solid bicycle tyre and I feel like a hard-bitten old cynic (some truth in that) when I fail to share their enthusiasm.<\/p>\n

I can see the advantages of airless tyres and I once got excited too. But that was many years ago and as each iteration of solid bicycle tyres come and go I fail to see anything that I would be interested in putting on my bike. <\/span>The idea of never having to worry about flat tyres is awesome though, like the idea of a perpetual tailwind or drivers who aren’t dangerously distracted or filled with an inchoate rage. <\/span> <\/span>

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If you do a quick google of airless tyres you’ll find that there are already many out there. For some reason they’re mostly represented by strangely unattractive websites like this one:<\/p>\n

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The athlete on the front, Bud, has won five triathlons on his Air Free<\/a> tyres. That’s great because not only did he do it with no air in his tyres but also with a pack rack and reversed bar-ends.<\/div>\n
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Bud’s awesome (as is my graphic artwork) and I’m sure he’s kicking it in his age group triathlons, but I’m not about to get frothy at the mouth excited just because some dude with backwards bar ends rides on solid tyres.<\/div>\n
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Of course, if you don’t like Air Free then maybe you should try Green Tyres<\/a>. They have a slightly more appealing website and a list of tyres in almost every size:<\/div>\n
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Except, it would seem, 700cc.

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The good news is you don’t have to buy any of these products because you can now support a start-up with a revolutionary new product that does exactly what these products do but with a difference. The difference is you have to buy a whole new wheel to go with it.<\/span>

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I’m assuming the one you buy doesn’t come with nails pre-installed. I think the photo above was just the result of some kind of clumsiness in the office.<\/div>\n
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As you can see from the image above, Flat Free<\/a> rocks in the real world, but that always leaves me wondering, how’s it work in the cartoon world. Well, I wonder no longer:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n