DIY ice tyres ?

[silverclaws]

DIY ice tyres, has anyone tried it, they work in mud too. Get some cheapy heavy blocked tyres, the Wilkinson's £5 a tyre will do, and screw quarter inch self tappers into the blocks accompanied with a bit of super glue. I used to do them on my old Megabytes, just the blocks around the edges and some in the middle spaced out so the footprint was a mix of rubber and screw head, black ice was a cinch.

Now admittedly it was an act of desparation, I needed the bike for the commute to work, better tyres bite the dust if they did instead of running the risk of losing ones job or the hours in the cold of winter when money is needed the most.

 

[Tad]

Someone did this last year on here, can't quite remember who, someone from macretro, there were a few pics floating about of a Specialized Ground Control with dirty great big screws poking through. I feel quite sad and pathetic for remembering the tyres that were used.

I splashed out on Schwalbe Ice Spikers for the icy commute. Only problem, no bloody snow down here!!! I'm praying for some tonight just so I have a reason to use them.

 

[silverclaws]

Excellent, that is what I like to see, the DIY nut jobs thinking laterally. My attempt was sort of based upon the compulsory snow tyres I had on the Volvo in Sweden, just little metal studs sticking out between the block tread, enough to bite into black ice when it is travelled across.

 

[Tad]

This looked considerably more animal, positively lethal in fact.

I was incredibly organised and bought mine in June, much cheapness then, the price has gone up in proportion to the drop in temperature since :shock:


EDIT: found it

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... ce+tyre%2A

Sadly I did remember the tyre used, I am such a looser. Alas the pics have been deleted.

 

[silverclaws]

Yes, as it always does, but some advice whilst you still can, get the yngsyobrodden or similar from ebay for yourselves and the family before this winter really set in. I have had them before, in Sweden and last year until I gave them away to a needier person, myself doing an ice tyre idea on my boots, quarter inch self tappers screwed into the sole, which worked. I also got them for my old dear and pregnant sister for the weather they had up in the north.

Oh, and if you choose to get them, move fast, from over a thousand pairs, they sold out in a week, but at £8 a pair, far better than the pain of falling on one's ass and breakages with the older and younger.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Swedish-no-sl...gGoods_HikingEquipment_RL&hash=item2a0c1899d6

Edited to add, I just noticed the units sold on that ebay ad, 262 pairs, when I last looked a couple of weeks back it was in single numbers.

 

[Tad]

Brilliant ! I'll have to get a pair then ask my colleagues in our head office in Stockholm how on earth to pronounce the name.

 

[dyna-ti]

Oh God,here we go again