I’d love to print these out on biodegradable filament!
*Alas, I cannot find the stl… :(
Awesome project, but I’m really bummed out he’s openly supporting that piece of shit company
Oh, was it sponsored by Bambu? Sponsor block might’ve caught me there. I was sorta dissapointed when I learned he’d moved from Prusa, as that is where he started.
first thought without opening the link:
what if you drive through dirt? will it all clog up and feel extra shit?
The sides are open, why would it clog up?
Because mud will do what mud does and clog any opening smaller than a few inches wide?
It’ll get squeezed and/or flung out the next revolution of the wheel though
I can’t even clear up regular spokes fully by going 40kmh down a road because of the clay type mud we get.
That’s relying on air alone, the mud on your spokes doesn’t receive much if any additional shear forces.
I meant while biking down a hill… If riding squeezed out all the mud then that means the runflat tire is… Flat…
Yeah, but he concluded that they kinda suck. At least version one. Fun project, but pointless?
I bet if you asked, Seth would make the stl available.
He’d like em a lot better, if he took the tread off and stuffed them inside a tire. Still wonder to this day how mountain biking hasn’t picked up on Mousses. They came pretty close with those cush cores, but they still weren’t really meant to be run flat. I run mousses in my dirtbike, and they generally kick ass. A big miserable to install the first couple times until you get the hang of it, but awesome.
You kinda run into the same issue as runflat inserts on cars. They make the wheel a lot heavier, bad for something human powered. Rotational mass costs more power to move than mass on the frame.
Even without a tire over them, they weigh more than the heaviest tire on the market. So, yeah. Exactly.