More than jus black n' round : Tyres, thats what I'm talkin' about!

It is tragic that we Indians are not the hardiest of adventurous souls who experiment and adopt new ways to spice up their life, and also to make things easier on themselves. Though tubeless tyres have been around since the mid 1950s, we only stumbled upon them with the advent in the late 1990s! It's another matter that it needed a high-end premium automobile to set things rolling on this count - a case repeated often enough abroad as well - but now we need to see the same thought and product process filtering through lower down the pecking order. Many carmakers and tyre makers blamed bad roads and a lack of education as reasons for not ushering in tubeless tyres but all that is now changing. It better because our neighbours in the SAARC nations like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal have been running on tubeless tyres for over a decade, if not more!

During the mid 1950s and early 1960s, India too manufactured tubeless tyres, which were not only supplied as original equipment for the cars, but also had a number of sizes meant for the replacement market. While the rest of the world accepted this new technology and by the middle of 1962, nearly all commercial vehicles, trucks and passenger cars used tubeless tyres, we in India reverted to the old tube-tyre theory. Even though most companies in India still manufacture tube-type tyres, many have the tubeless technology available with them and do manufacture tubeless tyres meant for export only.Tubeless tyres have reappeared in the Indian scenario but many users are reluctant to use them. Some fit tubes in them. So which is actually better?

Now thats what I am seekin an answer to! Being a Management trainee in Apollo tyres Ltd; was and is no silly job. Anyway would come to a bright conclusion to it all within April 21st.
Till then, wait for the fire yet to follow;-)