Mon, 07 Dec 1998 10:58:11 +0200
- Message No. 4556
From: Phoebus Katsanos
Subject: Snow...
I was really referring to tires ready from the factory for snow, and/or
ice.
Aren't there such tires?
Anyway, thanks for the replies, the most interesting seem to be the one
about spiking cheap tires.
And since the subject came up, here's a trick enduro riders do here:
You take an old cheap tire, and as Kirk from USA suggested, you put
sharp screws on it from the inside to the otside. This way, you have a
tire with spikes on the out side. Now, in order to keep your tube from
blowing up because of the heads of those screws, and to keep the screws
on their place, you put under this tire, a tire from a small motorcycle
(a moped). Then, underneath all that, you put a tube, also from a moped,
put them all back on the wheel, and you have fantastic grip on ice, but
don't even think about going to normal roads on that!
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