Then do it, the difference is like night and day able to climb icy slopes without sliding and great cornering. About time they were made legal.
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I've found big sticky tyres at low pressure just great on the ice, without the hassle of swapping 🙂
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As above, I thought nice wide sticky tyres as soft as you dare were quite good on ice.......UNTIL my Marathon Winters arrived earlier in the week. NOTHING can beat actual bits of metal digging into the ice.
EDIT: However until I can afford a cheap set of wheels as spares, swapping will be a bit of a pain. They say you don't need to,but it just feels such a waste wearing the studs down on normally wet, non-icy roads.
Snow. Bring it on. 😛
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'Winer tyres'? I think you spelt that wrong. You missed the h out. 'Whiner tyres'.
swingbing what pressure are you running? Been thinking about letting a few psi out of mine but not sure how low to go.
The "DIY stud tyre with screws" work a treat as well, just to let you know. Mine sealed up tubeless easy peasy. Very inexpensive for anyone wanting to give it a go. If I knew I was going to do it when I bought the tyres I would have gotten something that works better in actual snow than my Nevegals though. Mud tyre of some sort? That way the tyre thread deals with the snow and the studs with the ice.
Loving my ice spikers... TBH most of the time they're not dramatically better than a suitable standard knobbly, then you come round a corner and find some sheet ice...
Also, they leave cool marks when you skid.
Yeah the hassle of swapping them took me at least 10 minutes. Still I could change the axle on my spare wheels and keep them on there that'll save me 20 minutes per year.
evilclosetmonkey - I don't know what pressure I'm at, havent got an accurate gauge. I'm guessing around 25psi. When I look down at the rear tyre it is quite flattened out at the contact patch.
I've been running these between 40psi for slushy ice and 50 psi for compacted snow
svalgis, what screws did you use to make your own studded tyres? Also, did you go down a tyre size to give clearance for the studs? I'm thinking of making myself some, surely cheaper than getting a set from CRC!
one guy at work commuting 25 miles with Spikers. Didn't miss a day in this weather. Hero.
I've been commuting on Snow Studs (£35 the pair from Germany - cheaper than most bog standard MTB tyres) for over a week now, epic win in the mixed snow/ice/tarmac we've had here. Surprisingly fast-rolling.
My wife loves her ice spikers too. She especially likes being able to go faster on ice and the slip grip you get in snow.
Oh yah... Last year I made a DIY one out of a tioga factory xc and a nevegal. Unsurprisingly, the Tioga was still rubbish, why I decided to use one of those I don't know. The Nevegal was decent on ice but not really the best snow tyre in the first place.
The screws were wearing pretty fast though- I did maybe a couple of hundred miles on road and 20 or 30 offroad and they were about half worn out. The performance wasn't as good as the real thing but it was still pretty effective.
Winter specific tyres are for utter pansies.
Oh wait, I started the other thread....
This guy's other videos about his world cycling trip are worth watching. Crossing Russia in the winter, WTF?
svalgis, what screws did you use to make your own studded tyres? Also, did you go down a tyre size to give clearance for the studs? I'm thinking of making myself some, surely cheaper than getting a set from CRC!
4.2mm x 13mm stainless steel screws. Special bits of kit made for sheet metal and the like I think. It's what was available at home, if I did it again I'd probably get 3 x 12mm SS wood screws which should be easier to acquire from any hardware store. Make sure it's a standard head so that it lies flat against the tyre.
I didn't think about clearance at all until I fitted them, so I'm lucky that it didn't pose a problem. I already had the tyres fitted, 2.35" Nevegals. I'd probably run 2.5" if it wasn't for the fact that I found them for really cheap when I built the bike up, so effectively I did size down (just not on purpose...). Again, a mud tyre is probably preferable to maximize performance in the snow - the Nevegals are not great for that IMO, but the scews make them great on anything hard and icy.
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winter tyres.....check, work on ice, and even fluffy deep powdery drifts..... 😀