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Terry,
Think I passed you in the van a couple of days ago in Dyce and Hazlehead.
What have you got on your wheels? They are seriously "hi viz"
Rich.
Ah you have the white vw with animal graphics ?
I have clip on 3m reflective strips
Works dunnit .
what about carrying lunch? few baps in the back pocket?
Tassimo espresso for me.
I carry lunch in an old school Thunderbirds lunch tin. Throw it in the panniers. Bulletproof.
-4 this morning.
anyone change their route each winter to keep on gritted roads? this is my first winter, so i might have to do that..............
i tend to change my tires rather than the route
used 120 stud conti claws before on an mtb but commute was shorter. just took advantage of the early bird offer at spa cycles on winter marathons. - 30 quid a pop
Nearly got taken out by a taxi this morning at a roundabout - god knows what he was thinking im hardly invisible (my bike looks like tron from the side and has 1200 lumens pouring out the front and a red eye on the back plus reflective yellow flashing red led ankle bands) i was aware he was coming onto the round about but he just went as if i wasnt there accelerating hard then skidded to a hault and got on his horn(as if he thought i should have given way to him entering the roundabout) as soon as he realised i was there .... cocknose.
oh and it was only zero with us today at 6.30 - was frosty last night though.
Nordic spike would be 700c version but a bit wide at 40 / 42 !
edit: schwalbe marathon winter is a bit thinner - would be good for cross/ roady-hybrid
edit: interstingly seeing some reviews of studded tyres suggest the holes for the studs fill up with rubbish and cause punctures on the tubes.
so perhaps a heavier tube is needed?
or UST with slime - to fill in the holes of the studs coming through - might be a bugger to inflate though?
i'm now thinking i'll run a mtb in winter with these kind of tyres on , then decide on the morning of the commute which way to go, remembering of course to swap the lights across before i ride 😉
thats tosh of the highest order
only time i ever had to run a heavy duty tube was when i did a home brew studded tire ... and it was shite.
i went for the marathon as my commutes largely tar path / road and a nordic spike would penalise me on the road sections