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Winter/snow Riding (tyers)


Mr_Clean

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Hi.

while i was out today (in the freezing weather and snow) I was slipping around like greased up eel.

I was thinking that rally drivers get extra grip when in in ice and snow they use metal spike in there tyer's.

So i was wondering has anyone brought out a trials specific tyer ??

Would it give the bike the feel of a drys day riding or would it make it feel heavy and sluggish.

Just wondering what your thoughts are.

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if your riding deepish snow then your best bet is a mud specific tyre, one with long widly spaced knobbles.

If your riding ice then you want a studded tyre, nokian make these but you can also make them yourself by screwing screws through your tyre.

not really worth doing if we only really get a few days of snow a year, but if you ride wooden objects a ot, then I recken studded tyres would be ace, but really crap on rocks and metal.

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i have a pair of maxxis creppy crawler, grippiest tyres out but the spacing on the tyre is sooo wide so it clogs up loads of mud, if i was wanting good tyres for snowy conditions i would get try all, quite expensive but worth it, best natural tyres out Cherz Ross (Y)

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if your riding deepish snow then your best bet is a mud specific tyre, one with long widly spaced knobbles.

If your riding ice then you want a studded tyre, nokian make these but you can also make them yourself by screwing screws through your tyre.

not really worth doing if we only really get a few days of snow a year, but if you ride wooden objects a ot, then I recken studded tyres would be ace, but really crap on rocks and metal.

I might just put some screws into some old tyres and ride on them for a while to see what its like,because it always seems to rain and everything near my house is wooden :(

cheers guys

si.

watch yourself wid the wood and studs, theres like soooo many people who hate you riding as it is, and your really just givin them ammo to get the council & police after you, its happened to me when i was pedal grinding a high kerb, we stayed around the spot and someone called the police and if we were seen around the place again we would have our bikes confiscated for a week (which unfortunatly they can do with good reason!) so just watch the damage...

sorry to be boring and the nokian tires are great!! !aNT!

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get a worn tyre. screw screws through it(short ones, not too long) then gaffa the inside of the tyre to stop the screws poking through.

I might give that a go :) .

I think its probably better to get some maxxis creppy crawler or try all tyer then messing about with screws and old tyer's

Or i could just not ride in the snow. :D

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