slow day at the bike shop

[ducpainter]

Nokian makes studded bike tires

stopintime gives nokian the thumbs-up 

[partial threadjack]

We have Nokian tires on T's Focus. Had a different model previously too.

stopintime is right.  

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[cbartlett419]

Seen anyone do this yet?

so does that work?

[the_Journeyman]

Based on the principle of tire cables commonly used on FWD cars, I'm betting it helps some.  That's a lot of patience to put all of those on.

JM

[Monster Dave]

so does that work?

It wasn't me that did that, but I'd bet too that it would help a bit!

[triangleforge]

A few years back, I made a set of studded MTB tires using sheet metal screws, an old set of tires & a heavy tube liner, and they worked really well on hard packed snow/ice like your average snowy street/bike trail after a lot of traffic.

I've wondered about trying these, too -- pop rivets on narrower cyclocross tires:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Pop-Rivet-Ice-Tires-for-Your-Road-Bike/

But the storebought ones are better, I'm told -- carbide studs that are actually designed for snow and ice really do the trick.

I'd wager the cable-tie trick would work OK for forward traction, but not so much for lateral traction. It would be easily reversible (unlike any other DIY tire mod I know of) and fairly cheap.

[cbartlett419]

just never something I've had to deal with in north louisiana, you northern folk are dedicated

[Kopfjager]

so does that work?

It would do nothing but make your tires slicker. Oh hey I got an idea, let's put a bunch of plastic around the rubber. 

[badgalbetty]

looks like a good idea to me but what do I know? I am just a girl. I'll ask my boss he rides a bike.

[Artful]

It would do nothing but make your tires slicker. Oh hey I got an idea, let's put a bunch of plastic around the rubber. 

Kinda like putting a bunch of metal over rubber, aka snow chains it actually works, but is such a pain to put on/remove and the fact it only works with disc setups makes it pretty worthless compared to purpose made snow tires. Cheap though... so that's something I guess.

[Kopfjager]

Kinda like putting a bunch of metal over rubber, aka snow chains it actually works, but is such a pain to put on/remove and the fact it only works with disc setups makes it pretty worthless compared to purpose made snow tires. Cheap though... so that's something I guess.

Try some plastic snow chains, and get back to me. 

[badgalbetty]

Try some plastic snow chains, and get back to me.  

isn't that what those are or did I miss something?

I understand what you are saying but in this application it seems to be working.