Originally Posted by Diamond
I had an unpleasant ice experience on my commute last week and I'm sure studs would have been great but we probably only have ice in Oregon for 10 days every winter. Do you guys have multiple wheel sets for commuting? I can't see changing tires every time it was icy. Would it make sense to ride with studs all winter for those 10 days we have ice? I'm worried that the studs would perform poorly for the other 50 days of rain we have each winter. For now I'm just not going to ride if it is icy but I'm open to input.
-Scott
The W106's are pretty good on anything, wet pavement, dry pavement, whatever. On pavement they sound kinda like rice krispies
. They're probably heavier than whatever road tires you might have, but I had big heavy tires before these and the difference wasn't super noticable to me.
They're carbide-tipped studs, so they don't wear out really fast (supposedly, I haven't had mine long so I can't speak from experience... but they've probably got 40-50 miles on 'em and the studs aren't noticably worn).