The answer to the question may seem obvious. With no air to escape from them, there’s no chance that solid tyres, also sometimes called airless tyres, will ever get a puncture, avoiding a problem that has been the plague of cyclists ever since John Boyd Dunlop patented the pneumatic tyre in 1888.
Solid tyres do thrive on children’s bikes, although even here pneumatic tyres - those filled with air - are fitted to many of the best kids’ bikes, even balance bikes for the youngest children. Pneumatic tyres take over almost completely once bikes are designed for kids of around three-years -old.
