The wooden and metal wheels of 19th-century horse-drawn carriages started to evolve when American chemist Charles Goodyear created vulcanization, a process that made rubber stronger and more elastic.

Modern drivers take it for granted that a puncture usually means a slow leak and a quick plug, not a violent blowout at highway speed. That calm stability is the product of a quiet revolution in tire ...

With much of the professional peloton transitioning from tubular to tubeless wheel and tyre systems in recent years, the humble clincher tyre has often been forgotten. Clinchers had a brief moment in ...

When we hear the word inner tube, most of us think of hot childhood days spent by the community pool or a lazy day meandering down a river on the Fourth of July. It doesn't bring to mind the tires on ...