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The ongoing battle with studded tyres
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Posted 9 years ago #
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I've ridden over ice with the studded tyres and had no problems so far. Others will be more experienced than I but my 2c are
1) Ride confidently and as close to what you would do normally as you can. Trust your tyres. If you are indecisive and wobbly, you're more likely to fall off just like you would be in summer.
2) If time is no obstacle and you are nervous, on icy days let some air out of your tyres (note the recopmmended pressure on teh tyre walls)- gives you more contact area.
3) Anticipate time to turn and brake gently before you enter the turn.
4)At the weekend, if it is icy, find an empty icy car park or somewhere off-road to practice and play. You should be able to do pretty tight turns and stay upright. Practice stopping from a normal speed and work out if your stopping distance is different.
5)Be aware that unless you have studded shoes- when you put your feet down you probably will slide a bit thereGood on you for getting out there- hope you have a ball!
Posted 9 years ago # -
I fitted my schwalbe snow tyres last week and had great fun pulling the kids on their sledges. However, this morning I puntured twice on the way to work and second time saw that the wire bead in one of the tyres is exposed and was poking into the tube. I will need to return it and hope they can replace it, but in the meantime would I be better putting the remaining studded tyre on the front or the back?
Posted 9 years ago # -
Front. You can often control a rear wheel slide. Lose the front and you are normally on the floor.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Thanks stiltskin, that's handy as it is the rear that is knackered, although they were not too hard to fit anyway.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Galaxy - that's exactly the same as what happened to my tyres with similar outcome. See opening post of this thread - and the follow up when it went pop at 20mph.
I put it down to my battle to get them on, but sounds like you didn't have the same trouble, so maybe a manufacturing weakness.
Posted 9 years ago # -
+1 for front. I have yet to fit the studded rear this winter, no problems in -4C temp this morning e.g.
Posted 9 years ago # -
This brings a whole new meaning to the words "ice tyres". He had some problems with them disintegrating too...
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He's not riding them on the right sort of surface. Knobbly rubber sheeting with carbide protrusions would be better.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I love the Colin Furze vids. The jet bike is particularly inspiring. 'Raleigh Shoppers aren't meant to go at 50mph'...
Posted 9 years ago # -
I've had Schwalbe Marathon Winters on my Longstaff for a few years with no issues. A couple of months ago I fitted Schwalbe Winters on a Brompton. For a few weeks they were great. In the last two weeks I had three punctures which seem to line up with places where the back of the stud is visible inside the tyre. That one is going back to Schwalbe and I'll see what they say about it.
Cars have been sliding around the road and I had no idea how icy it was.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I had similar issue with flats, but only after tyre had seen a fair bit of use.
Glad to hear someone has tried out the new Brompton-sized tyres. i was disappointed when no one replied to my original query (May not have been this three, can't be bothered going back and checking).
Posted 9 years ago # -
There is plenty of clearance round the tyres on a Brompton. I've not noticed them scratching the bottom of the frame when folded.
One morning it looked quite glassy on our road so I asked the memsahib in the evening if the road was slippery. Apparently her traction control, well, her car's traction control really, had been working like crazy and someone else had skated into the roundabout. I had no indication at all, it just rolled as if it was on a dry road.
I lost a couple of studs early on but Brilliant Bikes were able to send me a packet of spares and the tool to fit them. They only have two rows of studs, the Marathon Winters on the Longstaff have four. There is a definite shoulder on the tread, more like a mountain bike tyre than something I would normally have on a Brompton. It's a bit odd cornering at first but you get used to it.
Posted 9 years ago # -
As a result of me innocuously favoriting a tweet of SRDs today about how hard it was to fit 20" Marathon Winters I had a visit from the fairy to my back wheel on the way home. :(
Given my usual performance at such matters I wasn't looking forward to fixing it.
The good news is that after only a hour I have fixed it - a new personal record and only one use of a lever putting it back on.
Hopefully it will stay fixed unlike my last attempt. The weird thing was I couldn't for the life of me find anything sharp inside the tyre. I could find the hole in the tube easy enough and it was on the outside and I have some extra 'puncture resistant' tape round the inside of the tube which should stop these things. Nothing sharp in there either. Fingers crossed we won't be visited again.
One good thing was being able to try out my new bike stand, which worked amicably and made getting the wheel on and off a lot easier.
It did also highlight a couple of hub issues which I'll start a new thread for.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I'd understand if you didn't want to take the tyre back off again and have a look but that's what I was getting. When I flexed the tyre a little I could see the back of the stud had come through the tyre carcass. I think that was what caused the punctures as the position matched up with the punctures.
Posted 9 years ago # -
You're probably right. I guess I'll find out if it was the back of a stud soon enough...
It was at the join of the puncture proof tape so I was wondering if the 2 layer bit had caused it - but it's a soft tape so probably not.
The tyre is only a month old so I'd hope it wasn't the back of the studs so soon.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I've had three of them on my Longstaff for about three years with no issues. The front Brompton one has been fine.
I'm going to parcel it up and send it back to Brilliant Bikes later in the week. Time for a mince round now.
The Longstaff is sitting at the front of the garage because they have promised snow. I'm not convinced.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Whoosh... 10mins faster on the commute this morning...
Maybe connected to taking my studs off last night...
Posted 9 years ago # -
Ours came off yesterday too. If we get hit by Sheila's brush* you know who to blame.
*explanation here for everyone except newbie deleriad (nice to have at least one person on the forum who might get my esoteric references) http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Canada/NL/ID/2659289950/
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/the-legend-of-sheilas-brush/23050/Posted 9 years ago # -
Is it time for studded tyres yet?
Posted 6 years ago # -
Soon?
I am almost certain @Snowy has now promised to fit mine for me. Pub conversation. But my memory is definitely the correct version...
Posted 6 years ago # -
the only problem with studded tyres i found is its the great safe feeling in the morning when it is icy and can cycle without a care in the world.........but a noisy draggy PIA going home in the evening when its 9degrees, such is the weather these recent winters (inverness weather i should add, first time for me down here in Edinburgh this winter)
Posted 6 years ago # -
My colleague has already been using his...
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