Space-Age Bicycle Wheels Using NASA Technology
www.kickstarter.com
Airless tires developed at NASA for Mars Rover Program, headed down to Earth for cycling enthusiasts around the world.

I can’t believe people like these keep trying to fix something that’s not broken (bike tires) with this space-age nonsense talk. Preying on the gullible is what they’re doing.

$500 USD for two of these tires.

What do you all think?

  • perishthethought@lemm.eeOPEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I go in with an open mind, but there were a few red flags for me:

    • they keep confusing “tires” and “wheels” on that KS page. You know the difference, right? Why don’t they?
    • they repeat that NASA design bit over and over, and even provide a link to a NASA web site but the tire shown there is very different from the design in the KS. I fear that the economics of the NASA design would never work out in the marketplace, but that’s not stopping them from pushing this sale.
    • as someone else pointed out, they claim the re-treading process would be cheap and easy, without saying how it’s done or even who will do that.

    Also, there have been quite a few previous inventions which claim to improve upon mostly rubber, air-filled tires. None of them made enough economic sense to replace what we’ve had going for many, many years. I’ll be happy to learn I am wrong and this company can really do that, but starting at $500 for two tires seems like a bad start to me. We will see…