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not resolvedBike group in my home town is advertising 'tire studding workshops'. They're selling 'tire studding kits' for $5 and old tyres.
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!
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:
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 tip 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.
That makes it look easy.....
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.
@Arellcat they probably didn't want them because they are after the steel banding for recycling, rather than the rubber?
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.
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...
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