Eli5: Why and how isn’t there any bicycle tire that is 100% rubber? Like, no air on the inside so no puncture risk isn’t it? Is really technology that far behind yet?

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Eli5: Why and how isn’t there any bicycle tire that is 100% rubber? Like, no air on the inside so no puncture risk isn’t it? Is really technology that far behind yet?

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60 years ago my father would put the solid rubber tires of my child tricycle in the oven to soften them. Then they could be stretched just enough to fit over the steel wheel rim.

I still remember the smell of the hot rubber.

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