Every car needs good tires, and the most common type of tire nowadays is the radial tire, which is pretty different compared to bias ply tires.

While the Big Three sent their intermediate-size musclecars out to battle one another in NASCAR, the ponies faced off in the Trans-Am road-racing series. SCCA's displacement ceiling for the series was ...

Bias-Ply vs. Bias-Ply Look vs. Radial Tires Beginning in the late 1960s and continuing into the early 1980s, automakers phased out bias-ply tires in favor of long-lasting radial tires. If you have a ...

Belted Bias Tires Tire construction type where a ply cut at an angle is reinforced with that wrap around the circumference of the tire on top of the bias or radial ply.

But actually, it's not that simple. In motor vehicles, radial tires have plies, essentially cords, that run from one bead to the other in a straight line, at 90º to the direction of travel. In bias ...

Unlike many thicker car tyres that use a similar idea, these new Schwalbes aren’t in fact completely radial or cross-ply. Rather than threads lying at a 90° angle to rolling direction (which typically ...

What is a Radial tire & why do all bicycle tires use Bias-Ply construction? Put simply, radial tires (like in your car) have a main structure of fibers that go straight up the sidewall from the rim, ...

MESA, Ariz. — A set of bias-ply car tires running for 10,000 miles might not sound unusual — but how about if those tires are also 58 years old? On Jan. 31, Anson Renshaw celebrated rolling 10,000 ...

Let's start around 1888. Back then, car tires were made of solid rubber. These tires were okay for old roads but not great for the newer paved ones. Then John Boyd Dunlop invented the pneumatic ...