Bridgestone Corporation, together with Bridgestone Cycle Co Ltd, has developed a next-generation bicycle tyre as an effort to realise practical application of the ‘Air Free Concept’, a technology for creating tyres that do not need to be inflated with air. The companies will advance feasibility studies seeking to make this new tyre available in market by 2019.
The Air Free Concept is a technology that eliminates the need for tyres to be inflated with air to support the weight, using a unique structure of spokes stretching along the inner sides of tyres. In addition, the resins that are used in the

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