Ron wrote: > Unlikely, since air is 78% nitrogen anyway and is a smaller molecule. It > will probably reduce "aging" - there's all sorts of things in rubber, and > with the gas at a high pressure, it's likely that the oxygen will very > slowly react with some of the components of the rubber - probably making it > less flexible and more likely to crack with age.
Try http://www.merityre.co.uk/nitrogen_tyres.htm and http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/pmm/pmm117.html and http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm? t=15183&m=154129&v=e for some info, just from Googling. Roger
