My first homemade studded tire
11-01-09 | 10:04 AM
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My first homemade studded tire
Just completed my first DIY studded tire. I'm very satisfied with it. I used a pair of Bontrager tires that were the stock tires on my mtb. Took them off right after I got the bike and they've been lying around my garage since 2004. Bought a box of screws from the hardware store for $3.49 and off I went.
Drilled a tap hole through the tire from the outside. Installed the screws from the inside. The LBS gave me a couple of old tubes that I cut and used as the liner between the screw heads and the tube. There are 32 screws per side on the tire. Looks great. I'll see how it rolls when the snow hits around November.
Sixty Fiver's previous posts with explanations and photos helped a lot with this. Thanks, SF!
Drilled a tap hole through the tire from the outside. Installed the screws from the inside. The LBS gave me a couple of old tubes that I cut and used as the liner between the screw heads and the tube. There are 32 screws per side on the tire. Looks great. I'll see how it rolls when the snow hits around November.
Sixty Fiver's previous posts with explanations and photos helped a lot with this. Thanks, SF!
11-01-09 | 10:15 AM
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Needs more studs.
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11-01-09 | 10:18 AM
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11-01-09 | 02:12 PM
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11-01-09 | 03:30 PM
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I think those studs are too far out to the side and there isn't enough of them. You need some more studs closer to the middle of the tire. Yes I know it will increase the rolling resistence but at the same time you will also have a much better traction on ice. Screws are cheap to replace as they wear out. I don't mean to be critical but I just wouldn't trust those on slick ice. I really like the ones I bRAD posted, I made something very similar.
11-01-09 | 04:32 PM
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Will put some #8 3/8-inch screws in the next row of knobs closer to the center. One concern is weight. The screws I currently have in weigh 200 grams (.7 oz.). I don't want to add a pound of weight to each tire in steel alone, along with the reduced rolling resistance of the knobbies.
11-01-09 | 04:52 PM
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yeah those tires probably weigh half as much as the rest of the bike (it is a pretty light bike but still)... but you can go flat out on a hockey rink with confidence. Seriously- for commuting the factory made ones are head and shoulders above the homemade (unless you're all out cornering on pure ice!)
