Graphene Tyres

[flecc]

A new revolution in tyres may be about to be realised:

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[JPGiant]

I wonder how much they'll be for the popular road & MTB tyre ranges - 700c, 26", 27.5" & 29"???

 

[LeighPing]

I wonder how much they'll be for the popular road & MTB tyre ranges - 700c, 26", 27.5" & 29"???

Popularity will only serve to bring the price down in good time.

 

[Deleted member 4366]

I wonder how much they'll be for the popular road & MTB tyre ranges - 700c, 26", 27.5" & 29"???

It depends where you get them from. There are big margins for retailers on tyres. Expect to pay retail prices of £38.95 for a city bike tyre and £46.25 for an average MTB tyre (MRP).

 

[anotherkiwi]

Or 19.90€ from a German discount web shop...

Graphene in batteries, graphene in tyres, when do we find out that it is really toxic and dangerous and that we shouldn't be using it?

 

[Gubbins]

Or 19.90€ from a German discount web shop...

Graphene in batteries, graphene in tyres, when do we find out that it is really toxic and dangerous and that we shouldn't be using it?

Probably when they want to shift the focus off of deisel

 

[flecc]

Graphene in batteries, graphene in tyres, when do we find out that it is really toxic and dangerous and that we shouldn't be using it?

When they add food preservative to its long list of uses.
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[Gubbins]

When they add food preservative to its long list of uses.
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and find out its killiing fish!

 

[Wicky]

Mmm Graphene particles getting into the environment as the tyres wear could possibly be a problem.

https://www.materialstoday.com/carbon/articles/s1369702112701013/

Graphene snuff anyone?

 

[flecc]

Mmm Graphene particles getting into the environment as the tyres wear could possibly be a problem.

https://www.materialstoday.com/carbon/articles/s1369702112701013/

Graphene snuff anyone?

Tyres are pretty awful already in that respect.

When a new golf course was built on farmland near me, the lane passing the entrance was improved with kerbs and a storm drain feeding rain from the road to the entrance of a long slightly downsloping footpath.

Every year for many years I'd picked edible wild mushrooms, mainly Russulas, along that footpath's flanks, but after the first season of road contaminated rain running down there they never grew again. Nor did the inedible ones. Fungi and lichen are very sensitive to pollution

I'd long known that the plasticisers that ooze from rubber tyres were toxic, but this was a graphic illustration of just how bad they can be.
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