Part 1 of our series reviewing tubeless tire inserts featured the Tannus Armour Tubeless gravel tire insert, a relative newcomer in this category. We reviewed the Cushcore Gravel/CX insert several ...

For our final review of our four-part tire insert series, we revisit the Cushcore Gravel.CX tubeless tire insert. Just before the pandemic, I posted a largely positive review of the Cushcore Gravel.CX ...

Tubeless mountain bike tires certainly improve on their conventional counterparts, but could they perform even better? The OPTIS insert is claimed to help them do so, by serving as an inflatable ...

Most mountain bikers wouldn't want shock absorbers that were simply springy air chambers with no damping. According to the guys at CushCore, however, that's exactly what tires are. Their solution? An ...

Move over, Huck Norris. There’s a new rim and tire protector on the market. Cush Core is a closed-cell foam tire insert designed to protect rims from dents, tires from pinch flats, and, unlike its ...

Tires are important. They may only have two points of contact, each the size of a credit card, but they're the only two contact patches you get. When it comes to tire architecture, there's a clear ...

Tires filled with pressurized inner tubes have helped to propel all kinds of bicycles for the past 100 years, but these tires are vulnerable to puncturing and require regular inflation. Airless bike ...

CushCore is a foam tire insert that promises to protect rims from impacts. In doing so, it claims myriad other benefits, including enhanced shock absorption and traction, flat resistance and, if you ...

Vittoria is the latest company to enter the tire insert market. The Air-Liner is designed to reduce the risk of flatting tires and cracking rims while improving ride quality by damping impacts and ...

Road Tubeless Tech: Thinking of making the jump to tubeless? PEZ-Man Chuck Peña has leapt into the unknown and fitted a set of Pirelli Cinturatos to his Irwin Cycling AON TLR wheelset. Chuck runs ...