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@Tea_Bee
Nice one, thanks DJ.
Those airless tyres are pretty interesting. But they are still just fitted to standard spoked wheels though, which seems to me to be a bit of a halfway-house and misses a lot of the possible shock absorbtion benefits. The tyres on that army vehicle had several inches of deformity available to them, which I would have thought would be much more useful. Smaller wheels, at maybe a 20" diameter with really deep honeycomb airless tyres several inches thick - that's what I would want to see.
Mind you, bicycle tyres can't use the same kind of flat profile that car tyres use though, so maybe it wouldn't work for cyclists. :-(