DIY studded tyres.

[longers]

There's a good thread on yacf about making your own studded tyres that might be of interest.

Thread here.

In the thread people also talk of using rivets and here's a "how to" on those.

If I haven't done either of these methods for next winter then I'm an arse.

Thanks to Nuttycyclist and Shaun <admin>.

 

[MacB]

you are a sad man Longers, you know that you can buy a set of tyres that will last many Winters. There's fettling and there's 'sticky back plastic time' gone very wrong.

Deep down I think you know which category this fall into

 

[km991148]

ouch pun(ture he11 by the look of it -

lots of cursing at a snowy roadside!

 

[Cubist]

Sorted. Now I know why I kept those cheap old knobblies ........! Watch this space.

 

[longers]

Deep down I think you know which category this fall into

Deep down I think it's a goer and for around a tenner for rivets and tyre liners I can have a go at turning an old pair of tyres into something that I reckon will work.

I don't think the homebrew tyres will stand upto to a lot of use on bare tarmac without wearing down the screws/rivets but they should be good enough for some fun on ice and off road.

 

[fossyant]

For £47 quid or there abouts...I can't be arsed doing my own...bloody good idea though, but you realise why the things are made of tungsten carbide......tarmac has no effect....

 

[nuttycyclist]

Deep down I think it's a goer and for around a tenner for rivets and tyre liners I can have a go at turning an old pair of tyres into something that I reckon will work.

I don't think the homebrew tyres will stand upto to a lot of use on bare tarmac without wearing down the screws/rivets but they should be good enough for some fun on ice and off road.

Well they've done 45 miles of bare tarmac so far, and then gripped lovely on the sheet ice outside the house. Pulled a stoppy on the drive.

Yes they are wearing down, but they were too long to start with. ILooking at the wear to date I'd say that these tyres are actually better this evening than they were on Tuesday night's test ride.

 

[nuttycyclist]

For £47 quid or there abouts...I can't be arsed doing my own...bloody good idea though, but you realise why the things are made of tungsten carbide......tarmac has no effect....

Yes I agree that tungsten carbide and full professional development would be the best - but for two hours work over a bottle of scotch and a film it was a darn sight better than ordering something on-line and then waiting for a delivery.

If I'd ordered new tyres on Monday when I had the idea, I'd have either not been cycling this week or have fallen off many times.

This is the first year ever I've been happy riding on surfaces such as this. 1/4 to 1/2 inch ice.

 

[Baggy]

but for two hours work over a bottle of scotch

Was the alcohol to help the process along, or for washing your fettling injuries clean

 

[nuttycyclist]

Both

<hic>

Long time no speak Baggy. How are you and Chuffy?

 

[Baggy]

Long time no speak Baggy. How are you and Chuffy?

Both suffering from lurgies but otherwise well and still pedalling, thanks. Good to see you're still being inventive...

 

[nuttycyclist]

Well I fell off the three wheel recumbent last winter, so thought I'd better find a better solution to this winter.

 

[Baggy]

How on earth did you fall off a three wheeler
Skid and roll?

 

[nuttycyclist]

I'd been happy getting it sideways at 25mph on ice, but then got cocky. Turned up at circuit training, everybody was waiting in the car park so I booted it into a power slide only to find that it was thin snow on tarmac and not ice.

Once I got it sideways the tyres bit and it rolled over - highsiding me through the air until I landed face first in half an inch of snow.


Oh how they laughed

 

[Baggy]