Orange you glad you bought Yokohama?.............
To: Red Badger
Good article! I've heard more about underinflated tires lately, yet I've not checked mine. Shame on me.
2 posted on
02/15/2007 10:42:49 AM PST by
Froufrou
To: sully777; Fierce Allegiance; vigl; Cagey; Abathar; A. Patriot; B Knotts; getsoutalive; ...
3 posted on
02/15/2007 10:44:52 AM PST by
Red Badger
(Rachel Carson is responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler...............)
To: Red Badger
I hope NASCAR waits until it is proven better than the Hoosier tires...
4 posted on
02/15/2007 10:45:17 AM PST by
TommyDale
(What will Rudy do in the War on Terror? Implement gun control on insurgents and Al Qaeda?)
To: Red Badger
I am involved in the rubber industry, reducing the amount of petroleum in rubber has seen an industry push for several years now.
Molding the stuff is another story though, most of the stuff I have seen tears way too easily when hot, de-molding it can be a real problem, I wonder how they overcame that, will have to check that out.
5 posted on
02/15/2007 10:45:20 AM PST by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
To: Red Badger
Super Nanopower Rubber
That's a good name---I'd buy some just based on that!!!
6 posted on
02/15/2007 10:47:05 AM PST by
Pondman88
To: Red Badger
Yokohama Rubber Company shows off the "less rubber" tire at a recent car show
8 posted on
02/15/2007 10:50:54 AM PST by
GeorgiaDawg32
(I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info..)
To: Red Badger
Aren't they the standard on all Toyotas?
9 posted on
02/15/2007 10:51:12 AM PST by
SMARTY
("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
To: Red Badger
You should see the mascots of Hankook Tire Company....
10 posted on
02/15/2007 10:54:17 AM PST by
Dallas59
(Case Closed)
To: Red Badger
What about TWEELS??
14 posted on
02/15/2007 10:56:38 AM PST by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: Red Badger
So, we are going to go from needs of less petroleum, back to the needs for more real rubber....
Didn't we invent artificial rubber strictly to get away from the strategic need for it?
Can replace oil in a tire tommorrow with real rubber, hell, that's what all tires were made from prior to WWII if memory serves.
Not discounting the technology, just more curious about it than this little excerpt portrays.
If all they are doing is moving from the artificial rubber from petroleum based products, back to natural rubber as primary ingredient, really haven't accomplished much of anything....
To: Red Badger
'bout time new technology to make countries less oil-dependent comes to the surface.
29 posted on
02/15/2007 11:55:35 AM PST by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: Red Badger
Make the tires out of concrete. Put the rubber on the road
30 posted on
02/15/2007 11:59:46 AM PST by
showme_the_Glory
(No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody want a peanut.....)
To: Red Badger
Put these on your Prius and not only travel in silence but leave a fresh lemony scent.
38 posted on
02/15/2007 12:48:09 PM PST by
RightWhale
(300 miles north of Big Wild Life)
To: Red Badger
I was kind of hoping they would be using whale oil so I could say, "Where the blubber meets the road..."
56 posted on
02/17/2007 1:36:27 PM PST by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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