just out of curiosity, how many people use studs on both tires and how many on just the front? I'm a "just the front" guy and have felt myself sliding about three times in the seven years or so I've had them.
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Grant Foster <[email protected]> wrote: > Agree on the studded tires front. It's just not worth it. Conditions were > pretty decent this morning compared to last night. Last night things were > pretty much glare ice on the sidewalks and paths. I was fine on my bike, > but had a heck of a time staying up when I tried walking. > > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:26 AM, STRAWSER, Charles < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I rode in from the near east side to the west side of campus with no >> problems at all. >> I do have studded ice tires (so I didn't plan on taking the bus in either >> direction), but it probably could have been ridden without them. >> >> I'm just unwilling these days to take the chance that I *probably* won't >> go down on some ice, so I used studded tires from the first snow until >> March, usually. >> I don't really understand why most people who ride in the winter or want >> to ride in the winter don't use them (ok, as far as I know nobody makes >> studded tires to fit your 40 year old British bike, Mitch, but for most >> people there are tires to fit their bikes). And, yes, the tires are quite >> expensive (for bike tires anyway) initially, but since I've used one pair >> through more than 15 winters, I'd say they're pretty reasonable in the long >> run. I'd recommend spending $50 or less on the bike you're going to ride >> through winter - and then spending twice that on tires (which will probably >> outlive the rest of the components on a winter bike). >> c >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Mitchell Nussbaum >> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 10:17 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Bikies] How was your commute today? >> >> Based on the news reports, I expected bike riding to be sheer hell this >> morning. I figured that the roads would be rideable on the way home, so I >> got out my bike and planned to put it on the bus for the ride to work. >> >> But when I got outside, I found that conditions weren't all that bad. The >> residential streets in my neighborhood were icy, but the ice had a lot of >> texture and my unstudded tires had plenty of traction. And the major >> streets were fine -- wet and occasionally slushy -- and the bike paths were >> OK. >> >> So my commute from the near west side was pretty good. How were things in >> other parts of the city? >> _______________________________________________ >> Bikies mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Bikies mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > > -- "If we continue to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us--on you and me--and say to themselves, 'My God, what kind of monsters were these people?'" --Daniel Quinn
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