Comments on: Me Me Me

By: Spencer

Spencer — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:57:51 +0000

Growing up in MI we used to have our best mountain bike rides in the snow. It made the trails more technical and during the thaw more muddy! Although a few buddies of mine made tires like dan is talkign about, we also used to buy winter tires with studs already in them. Aren’t studded tires available any more?

Spencer.

By: dan bertolet

dan bertolet — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:56:01 +0000

David, get a pair of fat tires with big square knobs, the bigger and fewer the better. Drill a hole through the center of each knob. Insert a machine screw that’s just the right length through each hole from the inside so it sticks through to the outside about an 1/8 to 1/4 inch. Or use roofing nails and cut them to the right length once they’re pushed through (the big flat heads give a lot of surface area for the air pressure to hold the stud in place). Wrap your inner tube in an old skinny road tire and put it all inside the fat tire (the road tire protects the tube from the screw/nail heads). Done. Among other silly stuff you do when you’re in college…

By: David Saxen

David Saxen — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:30:43 +0000

So…how exactly did you make the studded tires?

By: Dan Staley

Dan Staley — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:48:55 +0000

City Fix blog has a good post on winterizing your bike. I'll look into pogies, but no studded tires for Dan, esp as its going to be over 40ºF here for another week or so (good for the veggies in my cold frame)

By: John of Humdinger

John of Humdinger — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:49:48 +0000

That Google search phrase brings us right back here!

As well it might. This is one of the best written and illustrated blogs in webland. Thanks for a great read.

Have a good new year, Digger Dan.

By: Dan Staley

Dan Staley — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:45:47 +0000

I saw someone in Uptown with what looked like skinny tires in half a foot of snow and thought he was mildly insane, but I don’t think it was you.

When I lived there, that woulda been me.

SE Michigan, rode 24/7/365 on skinny tires. Not as hard to stay upright as you think.

Go, Dan’l!

By: Matt the Engineer

Matt the Engineer — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:00:20 +0000

I saw someone in Uptown with what looked like skinny tires in half a foot of snow and thought he was mildly insane, but I don’t think it was you.

Hey, whatever works. I had a few odd looks when I was snowshoeing down Queen Anne to get to work, but I made it down safely.

By: Sabina Pade

Sabina Pade — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:25:40 +0000

Well done, DB!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 07:48:41 +0000

Nice…I keep thinking i should build a nice winter fix gear with studded tires and a nice easy gear ratio, maybe even some disc brakes for good stopping power (no skid stopping on ice).