Originally Posted by
joejack951
Is this personal experience with studs on wet pavement? My experience has been that studded tires, if any worse than standard knobbies, aren't that much worse in the wet. But they are *infinitely* better on ice, ice which is sometimes mixed in with wet pavement, or ice that forms while you are at work during the day. As such, I rode many miles on both dry and wet pavement with studded tires when there was a chance I'd need them. Studded tires also work far better on really packed snow than do plain old knobbies, and again, infinitely better than slicks. Given the choice, I'm going to run my studded tires unless the chance of slippery pavement is quite low.
I'll admit that my personal experience with metal studded tires is only on a number of repair bikes at work. I have had wet conditions sliding a couple of times but then I was looking for it and was trying to see how easy it was to induce. Too easy for my tastes, on wet pavement. I will note that the OP didn't mention ice in his post, some snow and much more rain/sleet. To me this isn't the climate I would have expected metal studded tires to excel in. We have to accept in slippery conditions we need to heed how we ride in general. (I think of all the single vehicle accidents that involve all wheel drive, like all wheel drive is meant to keep you on the road...) Andy