@Ed1 I recommend you trade in for Marathon Winters, or put normal tyre on back, unless you're sure you need them.
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Winter Tyres
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Posted 6 years ago #
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Marathons have a fairly big central rubbery chunk to the tread, which is is squidgy enough to make me think my tyres are deflating, which should lessen any perceived harshness caused by anti-flat tape.
Posted 6 years ago # -
@Ed1, I normally just use the spiky tyre on the front. Only if there is a lot of ice would you need the benefit of spikes on the rear; otherwise a regular offroad tyre or even a conventional Marathon or similar would be sufficient.
I have a Marathon Winter for the back of the crank-forward bike but it hasn't done more than a couple of hundred miles probably.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Added slime to my rear tyre the last time it popped a couple of weeks ago so then had tyre tape and slime. Last night when got home my tyre blew out 30 minutes after getting home bike it made a bang. I think the slim stopped slow puncture as lost a bit of pressure last week but never went flat. I took tyre off to add another tube and slime when took tyre of realised that tyre tube had worn out over join in tyre tape same as last time. However I also noticed a 8 mm split in the tyre wall along a seem. Although this split had not caused the flat figured this would fail at some point. I then used an old 30, 700 winter tyre had on front wheel last year. Not sure why have trouble with winter tyres breaking but did have 2 seat bolts snap until got motorcycle engine bolt. I did also have a trouble with rear wheel breaking before I got tandem wheel the longest ever time with no broke spoke.
On Saturday I did have 10 beers and clothes and things in pannier, it may be the dead weight in pannier. I may try a front pannier next year to spread the weight or possibly this year a ruck sack for heavy objects when have winter tyres on.
Posted 6 years ago # -
I used to get spokes popping all over the place; it was probably due to them being too tense in combination with lugging loads of heavy crap around in a pannier without much bounce in my tyres. Since moving (in stages) from 32-spoke 19-mm rims with 110psi 700C*23/25 tyres carrying loads of heavy rubbish to 36-relatively-loose-spoke 22mm rims with 28mm tyres I've hardly broken a spoke at all.
Posted 6 years ago # -
I have a schwalbe winter tyre bought from the bicycle works on back of my old windcheetah trike and it gets me along the un gritted lanes in Midlothian which have been sheets of ice recently but great fun as virtually deserted.Opportunities for trike-bogganing and crazy skids
They are not much slower than my normal marathon supreme on bare Tarmac either-varying the pressure from about 25 on ice to 50 on Tarmac works well
My motto is "3 wheels in winter ,2 in summer"Posted 6 years ago # -
Interesting discussion with BromptonJunctionLDN mechanic about original & 'new' rims. New rims are stiffer box section & less likely to bust spokes because they flex less torsionally. A wheel is a complex marriage of spokes hub & rim - further affected by choice of tyre and operating pressure, plus the flex in the frame. Dark Arts often observed being practised in a wee cave at Clachan of Campsie with copious consumption of tea & Kit-Kats.#Wheelcraft
Posted 6 years ago # -
@jss, good motto
Posted 6 years ago # -
@jss - "My motto is "3 wheels in winter ,2 in summer"
Tweeted that more or less at the weekend. 'We've got trikes and a little ice. Turn a hazard into fun'.
I reckon most cyclists just don't understand the reclined trike and bike genre... :-)@tulyar - Big Al at Wheelcraft. The meeting place for so many wheelers in the west!
Posted 6 years ago # -
I see my winter tyres (Schwalbe Winter Spike Road Tyre K-Guard) are only rated at max load 75kg this may be why studs come through. I must weigh at least 110 kgs my bike is 15kgs empty by times lights water and tools would guess another 3 kgs. If the weight split between front and rear tyre is 60 percent to the back then before even load my bike the rear tyre is 76.8kg.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Can’t find the latest thread.
Can report that deciding to swap marathon pluses for marathon winters 45 mins before you have to leave for the train station is not a good idea.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Thanks to a tip in other thread (hankchief or green roofer?) mr srd had gotten a tyre seating tool thingy under the Christmas tree, and we actually got the plus off and the winter on without too much hassle.
The trouble - predictably- turned out to be the new mudguards, which were a pain to get off.
So now I am going to be sailing around London with no front guard. And it will doubtless be rainy (as per forecast) rather than icy and snowy ( as per warning).
Moral of the story may be - don’t check the weather app too often....
Posted 5 years ago # -
Advice please on a 700c (skinny as poss) studded tyre and where to buy!
Found my old wheels I hadn't thrown out after a pothole trashed the rear rim, so toying with the idea of putting a winter tyre on the front enabling the easy switcheroo!
Limited clearance on the SS fork hence skinnyish.
Ta
Posted 5 years ago # -
Smallest I have ever seen is 30mm, which I once had from bike-discount.de. I used to have an old pair lying around behind the bin which could be used for testing purposes but I think I eventually chucked them...
Posted 5 years ago # -
I have had 3 of these 700 x30 2 years ago. At the time the most skinny ones they made in 700.
Worked fine in the ice for me but went to 700x35 the following year and this year. The 700x30 can inflate to 100 psi unlike the larger ones limited to 75 or 80 PSI but they have a harsh ride in my view.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Thanks for that, appreciated.
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