---- India Rose Viola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to be nitpicky- what if you used a drill to insert the blunt screws? > aka "Blunt Force" :)
"Blunt" fasteners generally have machine threads, and only stay in place when threaded into something with female machine threads, such as a nut. Using a drill or power screwdriver (esp. with a Robertson head), they would go through the rubber okay, but the threads wouldn't have much "bite", and I'd bet a nickel and an old presta valve cap that they'd eventually work loose or just push through into the interior of the tire. Indeed, with tungsten carbide studs a la Nokian, the studs will likely outlast the tire itself. I'd still recommend "rotating" as suggested previously, just to get more total years out of the more expensive tires. And I'd bet another nickel and an old Schrader valve cap that if you totalled up all the wear and tear made by every studded bike tire used in an entire winter in Dane County, it would equate to about one day's worth of car-traffic wear on E. Wash. There's a reason studs are illegal for cars, but not for bikes. --------------- Paul T. O'Leary Chronic Nuisance Madison, WI USA _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
