Originally Posted by
Tim_Iowa
Ice is a great humbler
Especially when you're riding along fine, and then try to put your foot down when you stop. Unless you studded your boots, too, their soles won't have traction like your studded tires.
I've seen people screw grip studs into their boot soles. At Triple D, someone had a box of 1/2" screws with a big hex head on them, and offered them for self-studding your boots.
Like these:
I really wish I had taken him up on the offer! My SiDi boots have a hard plastic sole like a baseball cleat (as do many MTB soles). I can't wait for my Lake 303 boots to show up! And I should grab a handful of grip studs.
Not a bad idea - I've been in enough situations where the boots can't get grip and that's no fun at all. However, in the video from yesterday, I was screwed (see what I did there
) I was falling to my left and the creek gave me no place the left to put a foot down ... so I went down. Still not sure how I stayed dry, must be dumb luck.