Re: Wheels

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject	Re: Wheels
Date	2025-12-19 18:48 +0000
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 05:06:24 -0500, Paul wrote:

> We're not allowed to drive on steel studs, and this advert does not say
> what the studs are made of. Some of our tires are augmented with walnut
> shells, which is easier on the road surface. Even some of the winter
> bicycle tires here, have walnut shells or similar "soft" materials. I
> haven't checked but I doubt a steel stud on a bicycle tire is really a
> good idea (engineering issue).

We can use studs from October 1 - May 31.. I put them on at the end of 
November and take them off in the spring depending on the conditions but 
it's never been that late, usually sometime in March.

The weather for the next week looks like 40s during the day with a little 
rain or snow followed by nights in the high 20s.  Perfect black ice 
conditions. It doesn't look like a white Christmas or a green Christmas 
for the ski slope. Some seasons are better than others but it's marginal. 
There was another downhill area that gave up 30 years ago. It's been 
converted to a mountain bike / hiking area. 

Nokian has studded bicycle tires but even when I was crazy enough to ride 
all winter I didn't use them. They might have saved me a couple of slide 
down the road on my butt incidents but I bounced better back then. 

I saw one guy with a dirt bike with a DIY solution. He'd screwed hex head 
self-tapping screws into the lugs on the knobbies. He said they worked 
fairly well. There was a group in Butte that got into ice racing for a 
couple of years. It didn't last long. Maybe Darwinian selection entered 
the picture. Those studs are deadly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_speedway

> https://www.amazon.ca/Nokian-Hakkapeliitta-Studded-205-55R16/dp/
B09BF64WZZ

I had a set of Nokians that I really liked. The car they were on was taken 
out by a snowplow in March so I left them on the wreck and kept the summer 
set. I should have changed them out. I couldn't find Nokians when I 
replaced them.

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