Winter tires?

**BarelyAWake** · #21 (**permalink**) 10-20-2009, 04:11 AM

No worries bandito, I for one am here to learn other people's opinions

While you are prolly right about my bike studs as they'll just be stainless fasteners in the best McGuyver style - the ones for cars and trucks, even in those $80 bicycle tires are actually solid carbide and last a coupla seasons if treated properly (take 'em off come spring, no burnouts etc.)

In some more southern states (like Mass, the deep south lol) they're actually forbidden as they tear up the roads... I think their priorities could use a lil work... o_O

I think the big problem w/studs is the same as with four wheel drives, people expect them to have a night and day difference, yet a four wheel drive only helps you to get going - it doesn't help worth a **** to stop or turn. In a way that's worse - they'll help you right into trouble lol With studs it's similar, they don't give you any traction in slush, light snow, or even packed - but they help ya just a bit with the ice, and I'll take any lil bit of help I can get heh

Yet to be completely honest I'd have to agree with you, if it weren't for slackin' off so many seasons and waiting till after it iced up outside to get my winter tires on various vehicles - my logical reasoning would say the same - how could a handful of lil metal bits have any real effect? Yet the last ice storm we had while I still had my ol' army jeep - I couldn't get out of my driveway at all until I changed my tires (finally) to the studded set I had, then it was back to fun and games and snap 360s

bairdco · #22 (**permalink**) 10-20-2009, 04:22 AM

check these out from Kenda:

Kenda USA Bicycle Tires

**BarelyAWake** · #23 (**permalink**) 10-20-2009, 04:37 AM

I like these a lot;

... but $130 for a set of bike tires... ooph... TBH, I'd rather make a set - I'd think about spendin' that on a set of awesome summer tires that I'd get to use more, but I'll prolly wimp out this winter after a while lol

Maybe not - we'll see, if I can deal with riding a bicycle this winter I might get somethin' like those for next *shrug*

Thanks for the link tho!

Blakenstein · #24 (**permalink**) 10-20-2009, 05:00 AM

Kendas Nevegal is a lot more like it. hey!! I gots me an avatar now

Blakenstein · #25 (**permalink**) 10-20-2009, 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by BarelyAWake

Snow is great to visit - but ya don't wanna live there

Well - as it stands I've two sets of "aggressive" dirt tires, one with large lugs and one with small. I'm gonna stud the ones with large lugs in the best "do it yerself" fashion but ride the ones with lotsa lil lugs till it ices up a lot. I figure I'll get a good comparison that way.

bandito - I know ya didn't wanna start anythin' but I gotta say studs on cars & trucks are just about mandatory 'round these parts, being coastal we tend to get far more ice than snow. It's true studs won't help at all with snow - but they do help some while stopping and turning on ice.

They ofc don't "stick" to the ice, but they do in fact give you marginal traction, which is better than the none at all a wet rubber tire on ice is famed for. It may not be much without those 1in steel spikes ya mentioned - but there's a limit to how much vibration I can take heh

Salty - bfore you think I'm completely insane

My commute is a mere 1/4 mile (usually) so this debate is somewhat academic. I could walk/drive/carpool but where's the fun in that? I for one love a good driving challenge, for years every time we'd get the first snow I'd be out in it with any vehicle I could get my hands on, usually motorcycles with regular ol' street tires on 'em.

I drove nothin' but motorcycles as daily drivers year round till I was 24yo, which was when I first moved to Maine. I made it one last winter and got a car lol Although I had lived in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts previously and those places do actually see snow and ice, Maine... well... it's an overachiever o_O

*shrug* mebbe we'll have a mellow one this year, but Murphy is watchin' so we'll prolly have record breakin' lows JUST cause I don't wanna stop playin' with my bike

This is going to be another warm winter at least up to Jan.This means lots of polished ice, also known as black ice I hate that stuff but I'm doing alot less ridding this winter.

**BarelyAWake** · #26 (**permalink**) 10-20-2009, 05:29 AM

"Warm" being a comparative term ofc lol

Nice avatar BTW

jg767 · #27 (**permalink**) 10-20-2009, 09:36 AM

I put several thousand miles on a pair of Nokian Mount and Ground studded tires last winter here in Ma. They are made from tungsten carbide, the toughest available. They andle icy plowed roads extremely well, are quiet, and I naven't lost a single stud. They're not cheap but you can get at least 2 seasons out of them. If you're serious about winter riding, these are an absolute necessity.

**BarelyAWake** · #28 (**permalink**) 10-20-2009, 12:50 PM

Yar - I've seen those, think someone here linked me to 'em, sweet tires man! Thanks for the review

TBH - this'll be my first winter for riding a motorized bicycle, bet I don't make it the season - depends just how nasty it gets here. As such I'm a touch reluctant to kick $160+ on tires alone when there's so many other toys to get lol

Yet if I don't have too much trouble with the cold (my ride isn't far) I'll prolly pick up a set for next season, mebbe even this spring if I can find a deal - they are real nice!

I'm torn honestly, I really don't wanna cob together something with screws, I haven't gotten word back on their longevity - I wonder if they'll even last a month or so... but fer some labor, a set of tires I already own and like $10 I gotta give it a try.

See, there's this pesky jackshaft kit I wanna get, there's that other frame I'm savin' up for, got another motor that needs bits like an expansion pipe, there's that carb I wanted...

blarg - the list goes on lol - toys, I likes 'em

noco · #29 (**permalink**) 10-20-2009, 03:35 PM

i saw an article a few years back about a guy who was attempting to mountain bike the ididerod dog sled race...there was a whole article about his bike mods...dont know how to put a link in here but im sure it can be googled...i dont know if he completed it

Humsuckler · #30 (**permalink**) 10-21-2009, 08:13 AM

all you need to do is screw 1/4" sheet metal screws through the side lugs of your tires. and to be truthful you only need to do it to the front tire.

Done it before, ill do it again, it works.

They do wear out, but **** thats why you put them on the sides. going in a straight line is NP, you really only need the studs to turn anyway (therefore only the front tire!)

line your homestudded tire with an old tube and alot of baby powder and you shant get flats.

snowbiking is fun, i cant imagine how much more fun it wil be with a MB! the only downside is getting bodycold, since your not actually moving much.