http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: DIY tyre studs en Wed, 13 May 2026 03:18:10 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4480#post-47502 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:12:09 +0000 spitters 47502@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmmm that is tempting enough to get the old winter hack bike that broke the freewheel lastg year back on the road enough to try this... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4480#post-47494 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:56:13 +0000 kaputnik 47494@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Arellcat they probably didn't want them because they are after the steel banding for recycling, rather than the rubber?</p> <p>My Dad spent a number of years in Toronto after semi-emigrating with his parents in the late 60s / early 70s. His first job was at the Canadian Tyre store, putting studs into tyres with a compressed air gun, for people who were too tight to buy proper studded tyres. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4480#post-47491 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:35:07 +0000 wingpig 47491@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was pondering trying something like that with the fatter tyres on secondhandbike, using an old narrow tyre from normalbike (with beads removed) as a tube-protecting boot. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4480#post-47490 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:32:29 +0000 SRD 47490@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That makes it look easy..... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4480#post-47486 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:21:05 +0000 Arellcat 47486@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Friend of mine made a pair for last winter, and wrote a pretty detailed how-to page using screws, gaffer tape, old tyres, and bolt cutters:</p> <p><a href="http://velopoly.com/?p=244">DIY studded bicycle ice tyres</a></p> <p>I could have done the same but two summers ago I chucked all my old, worn out tyres in the bin, after they'd been hanging up for several years waiting to be recycled. The guys at the <strike>tip</strike> civic amenity site told me off for putting bicycle tyres in the car tyre skip and made me take them away again, so CEC got a load of chopped up tyres in the wheelie bin instead. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4480#post-47484 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:10:06 +0000 SRD 47484@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bike group in my home town is advertising 'tire studding workshops'. They're selling 'tire studding kits' for $5 and old tyres. </p> <p>Has anyone heard of this? Sure seems cheaper than buying them ready made (especially if the studs all out...). I don't really have time to do this, (or the skill?), but curious! </p>