snow tire ordered WITH studs this year

[Bob Denman]

:agree: :shocked: :agree:
There's brave; there's reckless... and then you're down to just :cus: silly!
But I'm not judging! I just want to keep a good friend safe...

 

[Farmbanker]

Seth, this inspires :bowdown:and scares the :cus: out of me all at the same time. Someday I would like to ride north of the border and meet you. I'm hoping you are still around by the time I would do it...stay safe.

 

[billpowell]

I don't know if studded tires are legal here in Florida, but will check the law 78 today:yes:

 

[BLUEKNIGHT911]

FLORIDA STUDDED TIRE LAW

I don't know if studded tires are legal here in Florida, but will check the law 78 today:yes:

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, find this out ASAP because this knowledge is of utmost importance and urgency The Floridians need this info to ride SAFE on those slippery SNOW covered florida roads ......RIGHT...:gaah:..:yikes:...:2excited::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:......Mike

 

[Grandpa Pete]

Did you do the video on Hwy 71 or ripping across on 2. Just curious. I rode down on the 7th of Nov from Pennington from hunting to vote. Your not the only one trippin in the powder...:bowdown:

 

[SethO]

Did you do the video on Hwy 71 or ripping across on 2. Just curious. I rode down on the 7th of Nov from Pennington from hunting to vote. Your not the only one trippin in the powder...:bowdown:

hwy 2 or hwy 71 up here are butt straight and I try not to make videos that are of what most people ride like everyday, plus the staties are on those roads more. This is the beicda rd off of division west of hwy 2 and it goes south. Its the 10 best curves close to dirt town and is my standard public test track.


did you get anything hunting up by blackduck?

I got the tire in there isn't that much snow now so I have it when I need it.

 

[Bob Denman]

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, find this out ASAP because this knowledge is of utmost importance and urgency The Floridians need this info to ride SAFE on those slippery SNOW covered florida roads

Thanks Mike! :roflblack:
You put me over the chuckle quota today! :thumbup:

 

[BLUEKNIGHT911]

chuckles

Thanks Mike! :roflblack:
You put me over the chuckle quota today! :thumbup:

One can only try to do their part :roflblack::roflblack::roflblack: :clap: :gaah: :yikes: :agree: :helpsmilie: :thumbup:........Mike

 

[SethO]

well I have had it on for about 2 weeks and we got about 3 inches of snow here last night, so my first ride in the snow was this am and I will say it works great, I don't even need the sandbags under the wheelchair bracket.


It works so well that turning is more of a issue than forward momentum (opposite of last year) It does not make it any warmer here, going to work today it was -12f.

I will get a video of riding sometime this week.

 

[Big Arm]

The video will be under the speed limit,.....right Seth ???? :roflblack: Glad they are working for you :2thumbs:
(73 here today in Tucson)

 

[Bob Denman]

:agree: If you can get moving easier than you can turn; that smells like a disaster brewing! :yikes:

 

[Rando]

snow and fun! A Spyder with studs should be able to do this!

[video=facebook;4354230768736]http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=4354230768736[/video]

 

[MikeinGA]

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires...eSearch=false&fromCompare1=yes&wtpackage=true

I got this with studs this year and hopefully i can give a good review on if it is worth having them in a tire on the spyder, not sure if everyone was aware of this but there were no snow tires in the stock spyder size so I have gone from 225/50 r15 to 215/60 r15.

I ran a general weather firestone last year and it do ok, better than a stock tire but not as good as a winter tire, I used a winterforce for 2 years and now I am trying this general.

If anyone has actual experience with this tire on a spyder I would love to hear it.

And for those who do not know a spyder does great in a snow and ice if you compare it to a car with bad tires or a motorcycle and if you have 4 inches or less of just now you can screw around a little but be careful of ice and such.

I ran thru about 6 inches of snow on the way home a few weeks ago that came down in 4 hours and i can say I have drove thru at least twice as bad conditions and that was with a stock sized kumdo rear at 50%.

Back in the 1980's I had plastic studed tires on my car. The studs were glued into the tire and the studs didn't come out. The older studed tires were only to be used under 50 mph. Good luck and let us know how they work.

Mike

 

[SethO]

:agree: If you can get moving easier than you can turn; that smells like a disaster brewing! :yikes:

its just the progression of testing. Got to figure out how to adjust this issue now, testing, always testing.

I sure wish I knew what to do and buy it then apply it but that would take a bigger budget than I have... right now anyway.

It is great to not have to have the sanbags on it.