You can find many accounts from people who have used zip ties in a pinch... because this is what they are good for.

Commercial tyres are great, I have some 20 inch Marathon winter tyres for my folder and I can pop wheelies on black ice and bring the front wheel down with no worries but they are worth a little over $100.00 a pair and they were a gift.

The DIY tyres I have been building up and using for the past decade do the same thing at a fraction of the cost and last a really long time, I have only flatted once over 25,000 miles of winter riding and this was on a DIY tyre that probably had 12,000 miles on it. One of the screws backed itself out enough to rub through the liner and after repairing that the tyre was back in use and is still useable and fitted to a spare front wheel.

Cost to roll your own is all of $5.00 and some elbow grease and does work better with knobbier tyres, if you are only going to use one studded tyre it goes on the front as rear wheel skids are recoverable while front ones usually are not.