Originally Posted by
Rob3
I also had that idea to put spikes in my cycling shoes, I think it will work good.
I saw them in a shop where you can repair your shoes.
Currently I use continental top contact II winter tires and they are great in rolling resistance, but I have yet to put them to the test as this winter I had only one morning where the there roads were a bit icy.
I think the winter is cancelled here as it's currently above 10C and yesterday on the thermometer hanging outside in the sun it was 20C
I have Top Contact Winter II's on my commuter right now and while they are excellent on wet conditions and better than other non-studded tires when rolling through small patches of ice so long as you keep the bike steady and straight, they will still slip when the road is covered with long stretches of black ice. I tested them in a park nearby on black ice formed by water runoff. If you are faced with conditions where these long stretches of black ice form on the roads early in the morning before sunrise, it is still safer to use studded tires. I have a pair of Schwalbe studded tires arriving soon. I wouldn't want to take the risk of crashing because my tires slipped on black ice then get run over by vehicles behind me. I ride on busy streets in the suburbs while headed to the city. On at least some stretches of roads I negotiate, I always see ice forming where water runs off from the gutter/sidewalk and also in front of construction areas where the water/mud is splashed to the streets by tires of trucks which then becomes ice at night and is still solid ice early in the morning.