Ha, Partick! Who needs studs when you're riding around on that tricycle?
You ARE the stud!
Cheers, John
On Monday, December 4, 2023 at 5:29:25 PM UTC-8 wboe...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hahahaha, a wonderfully bobish solution to the ice problem. N+1
>
> Will
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> On Mon, Dec 4, 2023, 5:37 PM
Thank you all for chiming in with your experiences and advice. Peter, I
appreciate your thoughts about spikes in deeper snow (we've a lot of that
out here!) and the need for tall knobs. Takashi, your thought on being
prepared for ice under the snow is a sound one. And, Andy, I agree that
while
Well said, Peter.
On Monday, December 4, 2023 at 4:34:18 AM UTC-8 peter...@gmail.com wrote:
> Studs do nothing for you in snow. They only add weight and are noisy on
> pavement. Studs are only useful on ice. For snow you need tall tread
> blocks.
>
> That being said, in winter we tend to get
Studs do nothing for you in snow. They only add weight and are noisy on
pavement. Studs are only useful on ice. For snow you need tall tread
blocks.
That being said, in winter we tend to get snow with ice, so winter tires
should have tall tread blacks and studs.
On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 8:34 PM
Longtime studded tire user for winter commuting. They are great for
on-road riding when you know there will be ice or patches of snow. They
really make no difference in packed snow on trails unless it's likght and
you're digging through to the ground. In that situation, volume makes a
Tires *like* the W106 700x35 Nokians work well for snow and ice on paths,
however on rutted ice, they have no studs to pull you out.
Tires *like* the W240 700x40 Nokians are more aggressive with knobs, stud
volume and stud placement. You can ride these pretty much anywhere.
Schwalbe Marathon
Yes, sorry. I didn’t catch the auto correct! Mine are 27.5x2.1. The only
others I used were right at 2”. So I can’t really say if wider helps. I can
say that the more aggressive tread and studs have made a huge difference.
They are about as loud as a car with studded tires though and my old set
Thank you all for your replies. Just to clarify @frahm30, are those the 45N
Kahva tires? I'm wondering about the fit of 2.25 with studs in my Hunq
frame. Worked at a bike shop this summer and saw a bike with studs (sheet
metal screws) that chewed into a frame! Ouch!
In the case of studded
I use 700x35 Nokians on my winter commuter. They work pretty well 95% of
the time, but today I was about at the limit – it snowed yesterday, thawed
a bit and rained, cleared off and froze hard, and then dusted snow again,
so we had loose powder on top of a sheet of pure ice. For conditions like
John, for many winters I commuted to work with Nokia Hakkepelitas, 700 x
35. For more grip, riding on local lakes and snowmobike trails, we would
use sheet metal screws on knobby mtb tires, kind of noisy and slow on any
bare pavement, but very secure on hard ice.
Steven Sweedler
Plymouth, New
Went for a ride in snow today and had a blast! I also slipped around a
little bit as I tried to follow the packed snow of tire tracks. Got me
thinking about studded tires. I've never ridden them before and know
nothing about them.
Do any of you fine folks with more experience in such matters
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