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Definition of balloon tyre in English: balloon tyrenoun A large tyre containing air at low pressure for travel on soft or uneven surfaces. Example sentencesExamples - It meant General Assignment Slot, but I always thought of a Gas Lot, some black-and-white corner station from a 20s Disney cartoon with vacuum pumps and Model Ts with patched balloon tires.
- In 1953 he built what he called a ‘Woodsie Bike,’ using a Schwinn World diamond frame, balloon tires, flat handlebars, derailleur gears, and cantilever brakes.
- It has four wheels with large balloon tyres, an unstressed 130 kW, 4 litre six cylinder engine and a five speed manual gearbox in which fifth gear is very, very rarely called for.
- Small balloon tires were wrapped in aluminum spats and the tires were the sole shock absorbers.
- We've got these three-wheelers with balloon tyres.
- Fitted with balloon tires for boondock operation, a Cub becomes the next best thing to a helicopter.
- Extrapolating the ‘wider and softer is better ‘logic, we should be seeing Lance in the Tour riding balloon tires pumped up to 20 psi.
- The big balloon tires had been replaced with authentic 1929 16-inch wheels and high pressure tires.
- She was on an old one speed, with balloon tires, coaster brakes, and the trademark oversized chain guard.
- The staff were very helpful and most difficulties were easily overcome, though we really needed a 4 x 4 wheelchair fitted with balloon tyres for the desert!
- I said ‘Yes, they used to call me balloon tyres’, because I'm not a tall man as you can see, but I got my legs strong, because I knew to be a runner you had to have something.
- In fact, several of the racers, King included, noted that Pennington's balloon tires gave both a smoother ride and a better handling performance in the snow.
- Fortunately, the airplane had the slightly oversized balloon tires installed.
- We fitted the trucks with air wheels - balloon tires, we would say now - and kept going, navigating like mariners, by sextant and compass and dead reckoning.
- Out of the junk arose something that looked a little like a motorized lawnmower with a nose job: a tiny cabin sat on wide balloon tires, with a sort of snout.
Derivatives adjective There is only one Brit classic which has really got my visual attention over the years - the balloon-tyred Sunbeam S7 that was produced for a couple of years. Example sentencesExamples - The maximum speed was approximately 30 km/h, considered by the designers to be a speed that would not impair the life of a standard balloon-tyred bicycle.
- ‘Each day, with a backpack full of instruments, we rode across the salt on balloon-tyred motorbikes to the centre of the lake,’ says Ms Campbell.
- Ride quality is very good too, absorbing poor surfaces and road humps like a balloon-tyred 4x4 despite the car's diminutive size.
- They were able to negotiate the surface of the Lake with three-wheeled balloon-tyred Honda buggies and they had radio communication with Muloorina Station.
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