Winter biking!
posted by McFrozen on October 12, 2001
Yesterday I bought studded tires for my bike. According to the manufacturer's website (Nokian of Finland), I overbought. I got the Nokian Extreme 296, which is a big offroad tire with 296 studs in it and cost $120 each. (For the record, that's double what I spent per tire for studs on my truck.) Nokian says that this is their tire for "X-treme cross-country and downhill use", but I said to myself, "Screw it. I want big fat studs." (Yes, that's a straight line begging for release, so go ahead.)
Anyway, it was pretty fun riding to work today, because I was actually moving faster than the cars and they were all sliding around and I wasn't. This is going to be a good winter.