Bike tires made from NASA’s bizarre shape-shifting metal are now available to buy

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Bike tires made from NASA’s bizarre shape-shifting metal are now available to buy
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Pretty sure this was on US Dragons Den and it got laughed out due to the cost. I'm like, yeah cost is pretty high initially but when the hell we gonna move on from rubber?

There is still rubber even with these.

You do realise that stuff grows on trees, right?

You do realize harvesting rubber from trees means lots of cut down trees in the Amazon, and most rubber in tyres is actually synthetic

I do know most rubber is synthetic, but even making it from fossil fuels we will have enough that we will never run out.

Uh, not if our fossil fuel consumption drops to 0, which is where we will need to be

No, I thought it was made from the crack of yo mama's ass

People these days pay more for bike tires than car tires these days already. There are $10k bikes now. Seems there's no amount of money some people won't pay for bike parts these days.