XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 05:06:24 -0500, Paul wrote:   
      
   > We're not allowed to drive on steel studs, and this advert does not say   
   > what the studs are made of. Some of our tires are augmented with walnut   
   > shells, which is easier on the road surface. Even some of the winter   
   > bicycle tires here, have walnut shells or similar "soft" materials. I   
   > haven't checked but I doubt a steel stud on a bicycle tire is really a   
   > good idea (engineering issue).   
      
   We can use studs from October 1 - May 31.. I put them on at the end of   
   November and take them off in the spring depending on the conditions but   
   it's never been that late, usually sometime in March.   
      
   The weather for the next week looks like 40s during the day with a little   
   rain or snow followed by nights in the high 20s.  Perfect black ice   
   conditions. It doesn't look like a white Christmas or a green Christmas   
   for the ski slope. Some seasons are better than others but it's marginal.   
   There was another downhill area that gave up 30 years ago. It's been   
   converted to a mountain bike / hiking area.   
      
   Nokian has studded bicycle tires but even when I was crazy enough to ride   
   all winter I didn't use them. They might have saved me a couple of slide   
   down the road on my butt incidents but I bounced better back then.   
      
   I saw one guy with a dirt bike with a DIY solution. He'd screwed hex head   
   self-tapping screws into the lugs on the knobbies. He said they worked   
   fairly well. There was a group in Butte that got into ice racing for a   
   couple of years. It didn't last long. Maybe Darwinian selection entered   
   the picture. Those studs are deadly.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_speedway   
      
      
   > https://www.amazon.ca/Nokian-Hakkapeliitta-Studded-205-55R16/dp/   
   B09BF64WZZ   
      
   I had a set of Nokians that I really liked. The car they were on was taken   
   out by a snowplow in March so I left them on the wreck and kept the summer   
   set. I should have changed them out. I couldn't find Nokians when I   
   replaced them.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)