Talk:Tweel

message: Just some notes for now. Need to decide the merits and find proper citations.
#10-15 year before seeing it in the market place.
#Time Magazine "One Of Most Amazing Inventions Of 2005", 21 Nov 2005.
#Wins a Popular Science magazine "Innovation Honor", 2005.
#Use on TWIKE and Segway products?
#Use on forklifts and other "brake-turn" vehicles, (besides the existing mention of wheelchairs and construction vehicles)?
--Charles Gaudette 20:20, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: More possible adds&hellip;

message: The tweel in the illustration is not the same design as the tweels in the photos. Not only that, the Design section seems to describe the illustration but not the photos. The photo shows a tweel with what looks like an alloy hub. Clearly, not a deformable plastic. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Radbasa (talk • contribs) 18:38, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Tweel illustration ≠ tweel photos

message: This article is sorely in needs of references particularly with it referring to Marco from My999 radio station in Colorado Springs. I think that's a bit of stretch as a reliable source Nil Einne (talk) 12:32, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: Is the correct name TWEEL or TWHEEL? I have seen both on Michelin's website, always in upper case. In either case, I've added some redirections for 'Michelin TWHEEL', 'Michelin Tweel' and 'TWHEEL' to this article. Stepho-wrs (talk) 09:42, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Either way it should not be all capitalized per MOS:TM. - Epson291 (talk) 19:18, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: TWEEL vs TWHEEL

message: ... would be nice.  Maybe one from NASA?  --Bcjordan (talk) 15:10, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: A photo of a Tweel

message: The paragraph on the drawbacks associated with tweels has been directly plagiarized from Reference 1 (the howstuffworks.com article written by Ed Grabianowski).  Other content is also eerily similar to what appears in Mr. Grabianowski's article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.88.150.78 (talk) 00:45, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Plagiarized content

message: I see that YouTube has videos purporting to be improvements over the Michelin design: "Real Tweel" () and "Super Tweel" ( There's also a professionally done video with "Super Tweel" in the title (). That last one is narrated by one Brian Russell, who describes himself as the inventor of the wheel shown in the video, an "energy return wheel" (the video mentions http://www.energyreturnwheel.com/). That mentioned URL turns out to be the corporate website for Britek Tire and Rubber. On the site, BriTek offers to license the technology (Apparently now called "The BriTek Wheel"). A report on that website characterizes the BriTek Wheel as a competitor to the Michelin Tweel. I'm not sure how much of this info fits into this article or how it ought to be presented, so I'll just mention it here. Perhaps someone more informed about all this than I can go forward with this. Wtmitchell  (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 05:08, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Variations 

message: User:TweelTech made some changes to the article. The user name strongly suggests that the user is actually an employee or paid contractor for the company. This isn't bad in itself but of course we need to monitor if they bias it by removing criticism and only adding positive reviews. I did revert them though for the following reasons:
#Added references by tacking [1] into the code instead of proper <ref> markup tags.
#Counted criticism by adding a reference to a positive review by Grass Roots magazine which requires a paid subscription (meaning that I can't verify it). The citation markup had serious problems.
#A change from 'shear band' to 'shear beam'. I would think that a circular tyre would have a band rather than a beam but this may be a misunderstanding on my part.
Most of the changes to the technical description wasn't bad. I probably would have let the changes stay but I reverted it due to the serious wiki markup problems. Would TweelTech or others like to comment?  Stepho  talk  22:41, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  User TweelTech 

message: Michelin have a new variation called 'Uptis' for passenger cars. Due for sale circa 2024.  Stepho  talk  13:15, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uptis