For much of its history, tyremaking has been a multistage and highly labour intensive industry, involving building up the tyre carcass in layers manually on a drum. Each layer of material is often cut ...

There aren't many bike brands making their own tyres, let alone racing them on the World Cup mountain bike circuit or in the Tour de France. Specialized is one such brand – regularly going toe-to-toe ...

Tyre maker Continental and Turkish reinforcer specialist Kordsa have started making passenger car tyres with a new sustainable adhesive. The two partners have been working together on this new ...

Do you know what the codes on the sides of your tyres mean, what sort of tyres you are riding on and how they are made? Motorcycle industry veteran Dale Schmidtchen takes a look at the construction of ...